Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 09:13:14 PDT From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner), peter@netplex.com.au, joelh@gnu.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bogus errno twiddling by lstat... Message-ID: <199806231613.JAA05642@mango.parc.xerox.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 22 Jun 1998 22:38:28 PDT." <199806230538.WAA23776@usr01.primenet.com>
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In message <199806230538.WAA23776@usr01.primenet.com>you write: >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. Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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