Sentence examples for returning an error from inspiring English sources

If a system call is passed an invalid argument, acceptable options include returning an error value (for those calls that return a value), returning an undefined value, or terminating the process.

The service appears to be down right now and is returning an error.

retries: Set the number of times any attempt to retrieve a file should retry before returning an error.

By around midday on Wednesday, the People's Daily spread appeared to have been removed, with the link to the English version returning an error message.

Also, the implementation for send, receive, and select had to change to disregard sends and receives on closed channels, without panicking, and returning an error in the case of sends.

Moreover, any of these are recoverable errors and, thus, stopping the complete calculation and returning an error message to the user (forcing the user to relaunch the process) or, worse, halting indefinitely, are suboptimal ways of responding to the above errors.

Annoyingly, Safari returns an error when you do this.

Note: All of the above functions return an error value through the "error" parameter.

When retrieving a value, if the key does not exist, return an error message.

The computer system, running on Windows 2000 software, returned an error.

If the new user process cannot fit into physical memory, exec should return an error.