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From: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
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Subject: Re: On errno
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* Tim Kientzle <kientzle@freebsd.org> wrote:
> POSIX does specify the range of allowable error codes
> for a lot of system calls, but not all.  In my experience,
> straying outside of that causes more problems than it's
> worth.  A lot of programs make error-recovery decisions
> based on errno values and that can get to be a portability
> headache rather quickly (remember that for most software,
> the default is going to be "if you don't recognize the errno
> value, exit with a fatal error.")

Create a new system call that allows you to obtain a more accurate error
code afterwards. We should probably call this function GetLastError().

--=20
 Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
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