[FFmpeg-cvslog] r26289 - trunk/libavcodec/truemotion2.c

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 02:58:49PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 08:12:57AM +0200, Kostya wrote:
> > On Sun, Jan 09, 2011 at 09:41:52PM +0100, Stefano Sabatini wrote:
> > [...]
> > > 
> > > People, plese try to use meaningful error codes, they help calling
> > > code to detect and report which is the cause of the problem, -1
> > > corresponds to EPERM which is not the correct reason most of the
> > > times.
> > 
> > This idea has not been bikeshedded enough. But in general who cares what
> > error was returned by decoder? -1 is just our way to say "generic error,
> > we don't care about actual code"
> 
> agree

I understood the intial mail to mean that the main problem is that applications
that try to make the value into an error string end up claiming the error was
"permission denied", which can be really confusing.