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Reply-To: Mike Heffner <mheffner@vt.edu>
From: Mike Heffner <mheffner@novacoxmail.com>
To: Assar Westerlund <assar@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Making glob(3) portable (was Re: Importing lukemftpd)
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On 25-Jul-2001 Assar Westerlund wrote:
| Mike Heffner <mheffner@novacoxmail.com> writes:
|> Why not just do away with the LIMITHIT return code and just use GLOB_NOSPACE
|> like NetBSD and OpenBSD does?
| 
| because:
| 
| 1. It's a different error condition and thus I thought it merited
|    (still having) a different error code.
| 2. It wasn't as bad for portability.  Error codes aren't quite

In what way is it not as bad? I agree that we don't have all the error values
that NetBSD and OpenBSD have, but using a different one for this scenario than
what the other *BSDs use is not very portable either.

|    portabel among the *BSDs as it is currently, but perhaps we should
|    work on that.

IMO, removing GLOB_LIMITHIT, or whatever, and just using GLOB_NOSPACE with
errno=0 would be the first step in the direction of portability.

| 
| /assar


Mike

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  Mike Heffner         <mheffner@[acm.]vt.edu>
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