On 13 Mar 2015 16:18, "Will Cosgrove" <will_at_panic.com> wrote:
>>
>> >> we have a function like errorMessageFromCode(int code), the _code_ is
the code coming from any o’l libssh function call.
>> >
>> >
>> > But that's the mistake. All libssh2 functions don't return the same
error code set. The libssh2_knownhost*() functions for example only return
error codes in the LIBSSH2_KNOWNHOST_CHECK_* series.
>>
>> If I may weigh in here, the known_host return codes aren't error codes
at all. That's where the misunderstanding has occurred.
>>
>> Most libssh2 return codes are indeed errors. You can think of them as
exceptions, in a language that has that feature. Apart from EAGAIN, you
never call a libssh2 function expecting to recieve one of those errors.
>>
>> Contrast that with the known_host functions. There the return code is a
result, not an error. You call those functions fully expecting to get any
of the possible values returned.
>
> I understand these are technically not errors per-say, but that doesn’t
mean I agree with their values being the same.
Would you feel different if the function did a calculation that returned a
number? Or checked something and returned a boolean?
Both those would return values that overlapped with the error codes. But
they aren't error codes, so you presumably wouldn't care. The known_hosts
functions are no different.
Asked
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Received on 2015-03-13