AI errno(2) values

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aaronmdjones

`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).

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chuckadams

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

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..."

SoftTalker

Missed one...

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

> #define EAI 201 /* hallucination */

If only AI threw an error when it hallucinates.

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chme

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

#define EKNOWBETTER 231 # ignoring prompt

cold_harbor

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

andai

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

cluckindan

207 is a bald move

cat-whisperer

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

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