Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 06:50:56 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, fenner@parc.xerox.com, peter@netplex.com.au, joelh@gnu.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bogus errno twiddling by lstat... Message-ID: <199806240650.XAA14212@usr02.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199806231613.JAA05642@mango.parc.xerox.com> from "Bill Fenner" at Jun 23, 98 09:13:14 am
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> >That goes a long way towards explaining why they felt free to > >screw it up, I suppose... > > You misunderstood. My impression was that most of the ANSI C committee > didn't like how much of a hack the errno interface was (e.g. this little > discussion we're having) but nobody had the stomach to replace it with > something better but not backwards-compatible. In for a penny, in for a pound: 1) volatile 2) const 3) non-promotion to int stack calling convention 4) introduction of #pragma varation to preprocessor syntax To say that they avoided backward incompatability would be a lie. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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