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Message-ID: <393E7D90.3690FDA2@softhome.net>
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 19:51:28 +0300
From: Laurynas Biveinis <lauras AT softhome DOT net>
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To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
CC: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>,
Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Subject: Re: EMLINK / ELOOP ?
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Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
> > OK, but maybe just changing "Doesn't support links" to "Doesn't support
> > hard links" would clarify it without increasing pedanticism?
> 
> So IMHO there's nothing wrong
> about the sentence 'DOS doesn't support links'.

Of course there is nothing wrong. 'Hard' just clarifies about what 
kind of links we are talking there.

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> If adding "hard" clarifies this, then I have nothing against such a
> change.

OK then? (The patch should apply with an offset because my errno.txh
contains additional ELOOP)

Anyway this thread has gone too big for this kind of problem
and solution :)

Laurynas

--- errno.txh.old	Tue Jun  6 19:05:04 2000
+++ errno.txh	Wed Jun  7 19:47:32 2000
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@
 @item 19
 
 EMLINK -- Too many links.  Not used in DJGPP (as DOS doesn't support
-links).
+hard links).
 
 @item 20

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