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> From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
> Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 10:47:44 -0500 (CDT)
> 
> Specifically, it seems that calling _open() with a name which includes
> a wildcard character (*,?) the dos error code returned is not 2 but 
> instead is 123 (0x7b) - which we interpret in _doserr_to_errno to be
> EFAULT instead of ENOENT.
> 
> Win2K seems to return the standard code if what is sent to _open does
> not contain a wildcard.

What about characters like <, >, and | -- what happens then?

> An easy fix would be to change the doserr_to_errno translation table.

That'd be oprobably the easiest fix.  Please add a comment there
explaining what is this for.

> Note, my results above show EFAULT (11) while Andrew noted 14 below, which
> would be EINVAL - I don't know if this is a typo or a different test 
> result.

Andrew?