Re: [E-devel] [Patch] Ecore exe - check kill() return value.

[Vincent T. <vt...@un...>]

On Mon, 18 Apr 2011, Mike McCormack wrote:

> On 04/17/2011 03:44 PM, Tom Hacohen wrote:
>> If it's needed/important, we can possibly add
>> "ecore_exe_pause_<with_return_value>" or something like that :P
>
> That would be nicer than an "errno" style thing.  Global error values have
> re-entrancy and thread-safety issues.  In libc it's thread local.

as the EFL are not thread safe, it's not a big issue

Vincent

>
> EFL returns void in way too many places for my liking.  It would be a good thing
> to return an error codes in 2.0, or add extra calls in 1.0 as per Tom's suggestion.
>
> Last time this was brought up, Raster said that void is returned to simplify
> and avoid error handling code.  Having the information available doesn't
> mean you have to write error handling code... it just means you can.
>
> thanks,
>
> Mike
>
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