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Date:   Fri, 8 Apr 2022 18:33:14 -0700
From:   Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/4] selftests: cgroup: return the errno of write() in
 cg_write() on failure
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On Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 04:57:41AM +0000, Yosry Ahmed wrote:
> Currently, cg_write() returns 0 on success and -1 on failure. Modify it
> to return the errno of write() syscall when write() fails.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yosry Ahmed <yosryahmed@google.com>
> ---
>  tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/cgroup_util.c | 32 +++++++++++---------
>  1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/cgroup_util.c b/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/cgroup_util.c
> index dbaa7aabbb4a..3b6bb09985fa 100644
> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/cgroup_util.c
> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/cgroup/cgroup_util.c
> @@ -38,23 +38,23 @@ static ssize_t read_text(const char *path, char *buf, size_t max_len)
>  	return len;
>  }
>  
> -static ssize_t write_text(const char *path, char *buf, ssize_t len)
> +/*
> + * Returns:
> + *	success -> 0
> + *	open() failure -> -1

Is there a reason why we can't return errno in this case as well?
It would be more straightforward.

Otherwise the change looks good to me.