Date: 25 Jul 2001 18:23:35 +0200 From: Assar Westerlund <assar@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Mike Heffner <mheffner@vt.edu> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Making glob(3) portable (was Re: Importing lukemftpd) Message-ID: <5ly9pduge0.fsf@assaris.sics.se> In-Reply-To: Mike Heffner's message of "Tue, 24 Jul 2001 23:41:00 -0400 (EDT)" References: <XFMail.20010724234100.mheffner@novacoxmail.com>
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Mike Heffner <mheffner@novacoxmail.com> writes: > 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. The state where the FreeBSD error code had the same name as the Net/OpenBSD option was bad, because then code using GLOB_LIMIT would just build and fail badly at run-time. > IMO, removing GLOB_LIMITHIT, or whatever, and just using GLOB_NOSPACE with > errno=0 would be the first step in the direction of portability. Sure, we can do that. /assar To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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