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To: Mike Heffner <mheffner@vt.edu>
Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG, Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
Subject: Re: Importing lukemftpd
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From: Assar Westerlund <assar@FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: 25 Jul 2001 03:07:27 +0200
In-Reply-To: Mike Heffner's message of "Tue, 24 Jul 2001 20:55:38 -0400 (EDT)"
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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
   portabel among the *BSDs as it is currently, but perhaps we should
   work on that.

/assar

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