From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
Message-Id: <9711251454.AA15567@clio.rice.edu>
Subject: Re: <sys/stat.h> constants
To: dj AT delorie DOT com (DJ Delorie)
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 08:54:02 -0600 (CST)
Cc: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To: <199711251314.IAA01310@delorie.com> from "DJ Delorie" at Nov 25, 97 08:14:06 am
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> when it reads/writes the cpio archive.  Relying on the constants to
> match the defined numeric values is a bug and should be fixed.

I agree strongly with DJ on this one - changing our numeric definitions
to workaround poorly designed/buggy code just covers up the problem.  Fix
the application.  If it's that poorly designed, there are probably lots
of other things which are OS dependent and need to be addressed.  All the
world is NOT a single flavor of unix.