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Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 04:44:52 +1100
From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org, j@uriah.heep.sax.de
Subject: Re: sysexits.h. which EX_ to use
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>MHO:	EX_IOERR for read/write/fclose
>	EX_OSERR for fstat  (stat'ing should always be possible if the
>	                     file exists)

stat() usually fails because the file doesn't exist.  This is likely to
be a config error, not an "OS" error.  You have to look at the errno if
you want to be accurate.

Bruce