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Subject: Re: A modest proposal for better errno values...
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At 07:25 13/05/2003 -0400, Thomas David Rivers wrote:
>How about
>
>         EKERNERR        /* A programming error in the kernel */
>
>
>Wouldn't that be descriptive of the situation without insulting
>anyone?

   If I understand the purpose of this error code, it deals with cases 
where data is in an invalid state.  In that case, why not make the error code
         EASSERT         /* An assertion has failed */

Colin Percival