Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/1997/11/19/12:19:33
On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Oberhumer Markus wrote:
> The values of some constants in <sys/stat.h> are different
> from all other systems I've seen, especially S_IFDIR.
>
> While implementations are probably free to use values of their choice,
> I nevertheless suggest changing them to standard ones.
I agree. This has caused me a major pain in the lower back when I ported
GNU cpio (which puts the mode bits verbatim into the archive).
DJ, if this change is not too much for a minor release, I recommend to
include it.
And while at that, can we also reconcile R_OK, W_OK and the rest of
constants accepted by `access' with the rest of Unix world?
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