[K42-discussion] Allocating error codes

[Robert Wisniewski]

Patrick,
     Yes I guess this plan is not really scalable.  I assure you we are not
trying to hoard error numbers :-), this was just the most expedient path to
getting the functionality we need.  Certainly the way to do this would be
to add this functionality to a web server somewhere.  If someone would like
to volunteer for that service great.  For now I suggest you just let me
know about how many you would like and I'll bump the internal counter.
It's currently at 2961, I've bumped to 3011.  If you need more let me know.

-bob

Robert Wisniewski
K42 MP OS, CPO, and CSO Projects
Advanced Operating Systems
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
914-945-3181
http://www.research.ibm.com/K42/
bob at watson.ibm.com

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Patrick Bozeman writes:
 > Over the next week I'm going to be submitting patches that include new 
 > error codes, i.e. the first param to the _SERROR macro.  However, IBM 
 > maintains the global error code allocation so I'm just making them up in 
 > the 9000-10000 range and leaving a FIXME comment that IBM needs to 
 > allocate new ones for me.  This seems like a pain for whoever applies 
 > the patches.  Is there a way I can get a block of error codes allocated 
 > ahead of time?  How has this been handled in the past?
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