[Samba] RE: Error code 0

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Nir Soffer wrote:

> Err. AFAIK, "error code 0" means "Success", in nearly every errno system
> I've seen, btw.
> 
> I've seen an error code 0 once in Samba, and I was told it has to do
> with the peer "going away". Since the packet doesn't exist or is all
> zeroed out in these cases, extraction of the error code field in the
> packet results in a "0". This is what gets reported to the end user.
> 
> Am I right?

You are correct.  Jeremy has put some code in future release (3.0)
that will help to describe the failure better.




cheers, jerry
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