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From: Aled Morris <aledm@qix.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: A modest proposal for better errno values...
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On Tue, 13 May 2003, Colin Percival wrote:

>   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 */


EDONTPANIC	/* a panic has been averted */

Aled