Re: iterate return values

[Marco Gerards]

Hollis Blanchard <address@hidden> writes:

> On Jan 23, 2005, at 1:19 PM, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
>
>> On Sunday 23 January 2005 19:23, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
>>> This patch fixed it for me, tested on Apple and DOS partition maps.
>>
>> I vote for not adding an additional function. I think it is simpler to
>> check an error rather than calling "present" functions. I don't want to
>> bloat the API.
>
> I think "is this partition type present" is a very reasonable API to
> support...
>
> What is the alternative? How would you distinguish between an iterate
> error (like "wrong partition map type") and a hook returning 1?

You could check for the specific error (GRUB_ERR_INCORRECT_PART or
so).

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Marco