Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 05:38:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, peter@netplex.com.au, joelh@gnu.org, fenner@parc.xerox.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bogus errno twiddling by lstat... Message-ID: <199806230538.WAA23776@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199806230520.WAA03529@mango.parc.xerox.com> from "Bill Fenner" at Jun 22, 98 10:20:02 pm
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> You might find it interesting to read the chapter on errno.h in > P.J. Plauger's *The Standard C Library*. He makes it clear how > little he (or, apparently, anyone involved with ANSI C) likes the > errno interface. That goes a long way towards explaining why they felt free to screw it up, I suppose... just another stop on their way to signals that don't automatically restart (another impediment to library calls acting like system calls) and file locks that go away on a whim and make it nearly impossible to implement user space file servers like SMB. 8-(. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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