Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 23:41:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Heffner <mheffner@novacoxmail.com> To: Assar Westerlund <assar@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Making glob(3) portable (was Re: Importing lukemftpd) Message-ID: <XFMail.20010724234100.mheffner@novacoxmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5litghyfxs.fsf@assaris.sics.se>
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This message is in MIME format --_=XFMail.1.5.0.FreeBSD:20010724234100:2934=_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 -- Mike Heffner <mheffner@[acm.]vt.edu> Fredericksburg, VA <mikeh@FreeBSD.org> --_=XFMail.1.5.0.FreeBSD:20010724234100:2934=_ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7Xj/LFokZQs3sv5kRAuQcAJ9w9KHYuc48aoTPC5sINfmOpZmTlwCfWdbE yWA3lGejy4qcotJ0dZgnkWc= =+D/t -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --_=XFMail.1.5.0.FreeBSD:20010724234100:2934=_-- End of MIME message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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