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Subject: Re: SVr4/SVID/SUS IPC conformance
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
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On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 19:18 +0200, Anton Arapov wrote:
> 
>   IPC code is good, EIDRM is justification of EINVAL. But neither SVr4 nor SVID \
> documents EIDRM.   Single Unix Specification mentions EINVAL but not EIDRM as a \
> possible failure for shmctl(), so the current kernel behavior is not merely \
> self-inconsistent but a flat violation of the spec. 

these specs tend to always allow additional error codes.