Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-nbd: only send a limited number of errno codes on the wire

[Eric Blake]

On 05/07/2015 09:26 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Right now, NBD includes potentially platform-specific error values in
> the wire protocol.
> 
> Luckily, most common error values are more or less universal: in
> particular, of all errno values <= 34 (up to ERANGE), they are all
> the same on supported platforms except for 11 (which is EAGAIN on
> Windows and Linux, but EDEADLK on Darwin and the *BSDs).

Well, this is not true on GNU Hurd, but to my knowledge no one has tried
to compile qemu on Hurd.

>  
> +    /* NBD errors should be universally equal to the corresponding
> +     * errno values, check it here.
> +     */
> +    QEMU_BUILD_BUG_ON(EPERM != 1);

And this is (probably not the first place) where qemu compilation would
fail on Hurd.  At any rate, I see no reason to hold up the patch on that
ground.

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