Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 14:00:43 +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 Mon, 24 Nov 1997, DJ Delorie wrote:

> > I'd bet you have troubles finding a S_IFDIR != 0x4000 or S_ISUID != 04000.
> 
> I have no problems finding examples.  SGI's S_ISUID is 0x0800.

S_ISUID is not the main problem.  The S_IFMT bits are.  Does SGI
define these differently as well?

> Programs that
> hard-code values, when macros defined by ANSI and POSIX are available,
> are broken.  Changing DJGPP to support broken programs, at the risk of
> breaking working programs and libraries, is unacceptable.

I agree that such programs are broken, but given that the set of
broken programs includes GNU cpio, I think this is well worth of
changing unless we have grave reasons not to.  (The definition of
``grave reasons'' is left as an excercise to the reader ;-)