Astro Hacker News - AI errno(2) values

aaronmdjones |next [-]

`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).

eqvinox |root |parent |next [-]

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.

WhyNotHugo |root |parent |next |previous [-]

Why does libc do this instead of simply returning that same negative number?

matheusmoreira |root |parent |next [-]

Legacy. It's always been this way and it can't change without breaking everything.

rcxdude |root |parent |previous [-]

POSIX, basically. It was already a convention by the time linux/glibc implemented it.

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chuckadams |next |previous [-]

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

OhMeadhbh |next |previous [-]

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..."

amelius |next |previous [-]

> #define EAI 201 /* hallucination */

If only AI threw an error when it hallucinates.

yard2010 |root |parent [-]

Nah it would just hallucinate this error all the time

Findecanor |root |parent [-]

It would hallucinate error codes that don't exist.

SoftTalker |next |previous [-]

Missed one...

   EHAL    231    /* I'm sorry Dave, I cannot do that */

chme |next |previous [-]

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

JSR_FDED |next |previous [-]

#define EKNOWBETTER 231 # ignoring prompt

cold_harbor |next |previous [-]

#define ESYCOPHANT 200 /* user asserted 2+2=5; model concurred */

andai |next |previous [-]

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

cluckindan |next |previous [-]

207 is a bald move

cat-whisperer |previous [-]

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

tetha |root |parent [-]

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...