Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 15:13:24 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
cc: k3040e4 AT c210 DOT edvz DOT uni-linz DOT ac DOT at, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: <sys/stat.h> constants
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On Thu, 20 Nov 1997, DJ Delorie wrote:

> > While implementations are probably free to use values of their choice,
> > I nevertheless suggest changing them to standard ones.
> 
> There are no "standard ones"

All Unix boxes I could look at use the same definitions (which are
different from ours).

> It will break all existing libraries that use stat, perhaps like
> allegro.

Allegro is a bad example: its installation requires to compile the
library anyway.

I could imagine that old libraries will break without compilation,
but is that such a Bad Thing?