From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jun 23 09:14:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA10471 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 09:14:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpha.xerox.com (omega.Xerox.COM [13.1.64.95]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA10465 for ; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 09:13:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fenner@parc.xerox.com) Received: from mango.parc.xerox.com ([13.1.102.232]) by alpha.xerox.com with SMTP id <40677(1)>; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 09:13:20 PDT Received: from mango.parc.xerox.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mango.parc.xerox.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA05642; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 09:13:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fenner@mango.parc.xerox.com) Message-Id: <199806231613.JAA05642@mango.parc.xerox.com> To: Terry Lambert cc: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner), peter@netplex.com.au, joelh@gnu.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bogus errno twiddling by lstat... In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 22 Jun 1998 22:38:28 PDT." <199806230538.WAA23776@usr01.primenet.com> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 09:13:14 PDT From: Bill Fenner Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <199806230538.WAA23776@usr01.primenet.com>you write: >That goes a long way towards explaining why they felt free to >screw it up, I suppose... You misunderstood. My impression was that most of the ANSI C committee didn't like how much of a hack the errno interface was (e.g. this little discussion we're having) but nobody had the stomach to replace it with something better but not backwards-compatible. Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message