Date: Tue, 10 Mar 1998 10:33:49 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
cc: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>,
        djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: errno constants in <errno.h>
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On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Nate Eldredge wrote:

> 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".

This is a compile-time feature.  I think the suggestion was to have a
*variable* to choose between the two semantics.  I understood that as
a request for a run-time feature.