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AK: Add a new method to propagate errno while printing errors in Kernel

This new method is meant to be used in both userspace and kernel code.
The idea is to allow printing of a verbose message and then returning an
errno code which is the proper mechanism for kernel code because we
should almost always assume that such error will be propagated back to
userspace in some way, so the userspace code could reasonably decode it.

For userspace code however, this new method is meant to be a simple
wrapper for Error::from_string_view, because for most invocations, it's
much more useful to have a verbose & literal error than a errno code, so
we simply ignore that errno code completely in such context.
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Liav A 2023-02-05 12:27:38 +02:00 committed by Linus Groh
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/*
* Copyright (c) 2023, Liav A. <liavalb@hotmail.co.il>
*
* SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause
*/
#include <AK/Error.h>
#ifdef KERNEL
# include <AK/Format.h>
#endif
namespace AK {
Error Error::from_string_view_or_print_error_and_return_errno(StringView string_literal, [[maybe_unused]] int code)
{
#ifdef KERNEL
dmesgln("{}", string_literal);
return Error::from_errno(code);
#else
return Error::from_string_view(string_literal);
#endif
}
}