Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 17:04:31 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
cc: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: <sys/stat.h> constants
In-Reply-To: <9711251454.AA15567@clio.rice.edu>
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.971125170238.28212G-100000@is>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Precedence: bulk


On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Charles Sandmann wrote:

> 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.

It seems that at least in case of mode bits, all flavors of Unix agree, 
but we are different.

It is true that cpio has a clear bug here, but do we really aspire to 
make the entire world straight by insisting that the rest correct 
themselves?