Re: iterate return values

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

On Sunday 23 January 2005 20:53, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> I think "is this partition type present" is a very reasonable API to
> support...

Then, the filesystem also must have a function for "if this file is 
present". This is overkill.

> What is the alternative? How would you distinguish between an iterate
> error (like "wrong partition map type") and a hook returning 1?

So I said that iterate functions should not return non-zero on errors. 
They should return zero instead. Then, you can check if it was because 
of an error or not.

Okuji