From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 13 19:55:18 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F121537B401; Tue, 13 May 2003 19:55:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp-relay.omnis.com (smtp-relay.omnis.com [216.239.128.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B5DB43FBF; Tue, 13 May 2003 19:55:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from salty.rapid.stbernard.com (corp-2.ipinc.com [199.245.188.2]) by smtp-relay.omnis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 731EB1C357; Tue, 13 May 2003 19:55:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr.com To: Jaron Omega , hackers@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 19:55:13 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <20030513114315.GA19606@af-inet.net> In-Reply-To: <20030513114315.GA19606@af-inet.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305131955.13455.wes@softweyr.com> cc: Jordan Hubbard Subject: Re: A modest proposal for better errno values... X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 02:55:18 -0000 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