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On 31 October 2011 15:20, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 10/31/2011 15:16, Ed Schouten wrote:
>> What if we implement everything using the POSIX naming scheme, but put
>> this in <fcntl.h>:
>
> My concern about that is that we're teaching people who start learning
> programming with our sources to do non-standard stuff.

.. if that keeps them on FreeBSD, what's wrong with that? :)

It'd be fun to see the foot on the other shoe for a change. :)



Adrian