Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 17:41:04 -0800 (PST)
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>,
        "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
From: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
Subject: Re: errno constants in <errno.h>
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At 06:30  3/9/1998 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
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>On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:
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>> 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.

I understood the suggestion not to be changing the `errno' macros, but
rather their actual values. i.e. say

#define EEXIST 123

if 123 is DOS's error code for "file exists".

But I still think the `_dos_errno' approach is better.

Nate Eldredge
eldredge AT ap DOT net