Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 19:55:13 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Jaron Omega <jaron@af-inet.net>, hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@apple.com> Subject: Re: A modest proposal for better errno values... Message-ID: <200305131955.13455.wes@softweyr.com> In-Reply-To: <20030513114315.GA19606@af-inet.net> References: <E371408A-8520-11D7-8900-000393BB9222@apple.com> <20030513114315.GA19606@af-inet.net>
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On Tuesday 13 May 2003 04:43, Jaron Omega wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 01:57:13AM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> > So, to make a long story short, this is one small area where
> > Apple's going to have to gratuitously diverge from FreeBSD if it
> > remains this way and I frankly hate that idea since it just makes
> > diffing things that much more annoying and for reasons which could
> > be best and most accurately described as "silly." That said, I'm
> > sure the reactions of the various people reading this will still
> > vary between "who gives a damn what Apple thinks of our errno
> > values?! Get a life, Apple!" and "yeah, that's a pretty silly
> > errno value and in rather colloquial english at that, let's pick a
> > more descriptive name like ``EUSERERR'' or something which makes
> > any code using it more clear."
>
> Apple became a corporation, May 25th 1998. Not technically ofcourse,
> but in spirit.
So change it to EBUTTHEAD, that should be perfectly safe for Apple.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters wes@softweyr.com
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