Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 18:30:42 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: errno constants in <errno.h>
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On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:

> It sounds better than having an errno too different than the UNIX one.

I would definitely NOT change errno.  Too many programs say things like 
"if (errno == EEXIST)" etc.

> And  perhaps (if no so much overhead is involved) we can even have both 
> errno styles selectable through some variable.

Is there really a need for this option?  If we have both errno and
_dos_errno, an application could test both of them if it needs. 
Portability (both to Posix and DOS compilers) is served well by having
both of these separate.