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kcmp vs strcmp conventionkcmp vs strcmp conventionPosted Feb 2, 2012 15:16 UTC (Thu) by jnareb (subscriber, #46500)Parent article: Preparing for user-space checkpoint/restore
Why not return -1 if "less" and 1 if "greater", just like strcmp (and what e.g. qsort expect from comparison function), instead of 1 and 2?
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kcmp vs strcmp convention Posted Feb 2, 2012 16:05 UTC (Thu) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266) [Link]
This is a system call.
In a system call, values between -1 and -4095 (inclusive) are reserved for errors, with values from errno.h. In particular, -1 means EPERM on x86.
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