AI errno(2) values

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76 points | by zdw 3 days ago

10 comments

aaronmdjones 2 hours ago

`errno` is a userland concept; the kernel returns negative error numbers that libc then turns into -1 and sets errno. Thus the correct manpage is errno(3).

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- eqvinox 1 hour ago
  
  OpenBSD up to 5.9 had errno(2) symlinked to intro(2), describing error codes:
  https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=errno&apropos=0&se...
  Also, your statements about the kernel and libc are OS specific.
OhMeadhbh 1 hour ago

As a long time emacs user, I appreciated the inclusion of EMACS as an error code. When I moved from TECO to gnu emacs in to 80s, elisp was an advance. Now I have a perpetual todo item... "rewrite emacs in fennel or janet or even minimalisp."
"What was deluxe is now debris..."

    #define ETERNITY 999 /* stuck in thinking loop */

chme 2 hours ago

    #define EPROCRASTINATE 245 /* exhausted all output tokens with reasoning */

cold_harbor 2 hours ago

#define ESYCOPHANT 200 /* user asserted 2+2=5; model concurred */
JSR_FDED 3 hours ago

#define EKNOWBETTER 231 # ignoring prompt
andai 4 hours ago

I often ran into an error where multimodal models would refuse to operate in transcription mode due to some system prompt.
cluckindan 2 hours ago

207 is a bald move
cat-whisperer 4 hours ago

what about ETHOS : Error it's Mythos? lol!

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- tetha 2 hours ago
  
  ETHOS is generally reserved for a certain type of error involving slab memory and complex logic though.
  Let's hope that reference is not too obscure...