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Date:	Fri, 15 Dec 2000 20:48:20 -0500
To:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
From:	"Peter J. Farley III" <pjfarley AT banet DOT net>
Subject:	Re: Locking fcntl changes #2
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At 11:31 AM 12/14/00 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
 >On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Peter J. Farley III wrote:
 >>  >EACCES is too ubiquitous on DOS, so I'd prefer EAGAIN.
 >> I must respectfully disagree.  Isn't EACCES a much better 
description
 >> of a locking error than EAGAIN?  EACCES may be too common, but 
aren't
 >> locking violations exactly what EACCES was intended to describe?
 >
 >It's arguable: locking violations mean both EACCES and EAGAIN.
 >But I don't see any reason to argue about this.  If you prefer 
EACCES,
 >so be it.

Thank you.  EACCES it is.

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Peter J. Farley III (pjfarley AT dorsai DOT org OR
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