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Re: error_t proposal

From scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal)
Subject Re: error_t proposal
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
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Date 2019-09-05 13:59 +0000

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Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net> writes:
>On 5/9/19 7:14 am, Thiago Adams wrote:
>
>> 
>> 
>> What do you think?
>
>Errno is possibly the most evil thing to happen in the history of the 
>computer industry.

No, tell us what you _really_ think.

>
>Every error has a context which goes beyond a simple indication of 
>failure. The very first errno in Unix is EPERM, permission denied. There 
>is no indication of what permission was denied, or what the user can do 
>to fix it. 

Sure there is.  In the documentation for the system call.


>The second one is ENOENT, no such file or directory. Exactly 
>*which* file or directory (in the path provided) does not exist? 
>Perchance you could tell me whether it was expected to be a file, or a 
>directory? And so it goes on.

You realize this was all designed in the mid 1970's to run on
a machine with less than 64k bytes of ram?

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error_t proposal Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2019-09-04 14:14 -0700
  Re: error_t proposal Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-09-04 15:20 -0700
    Re: error_t proposal Mateusz Viste <mateusz@wont.tell> - 2019-09-05 08:02 +0000
      Re: error_t proposal Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2019-09-05 04:04 -0700
        Re: error_t proposal Bruce S <bruces42@hotmail.com> - 2019-09-05 08:18 -0600
          Re: error_t proposal Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-09-05 14:31 -0700
            Re: error_t proposal James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2019-09-05 17:49 -0400
              Re: error_t proposal Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-09-05 15:14 -0700
            Re: error_t proposal Bruce S <bruces42@hotmail.com> - 2019-09-06 14:03 -0600
  Re: error_t proposal Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net> - 2019-09-05 09:30 +1000
    Re: error_t proposal Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2019-09-05 02:38 -0700
    Re: error_t proposal Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2019-09-05 04:57 -0700
      Re: error_t proposal Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2019-09-05 05:16 -0700
        Re: error_t proposal Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2019-09-05 05:35 -0700
          Re: error_t proposal Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2019-09-05 06:08 -0700
            Re: error_t proposal Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2019-09-05 06:16 -0700
              Re: error_t proposal Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2019-09-05 06:37 -0700
                Re: error_t proposal Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2019-09-05 07:04 -0700
                Re: error_t proposal Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-09-05 20:51 +0100
                Re: error_t proposal Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2019-09-05 13:52 -0700
                Re: error_t proposal Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-09-05 14:56 -0700
              Re: error_t proposal William Ahern <william@25thandClement.com> - 2019-09-05 13:18 -0700
              Re: error_t proposal Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net> - 2019-09-06 07:25 +1000
      Re: error_t proposal Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net> - 2019-09-06 07:35 +1000
        Re: error_t proposal Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2019-09-06 04:22 -0700
    Re: error_t proposal scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2019-09-05 13:59 +0000
      Re: error_t proposal Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net> - 2019-09-06 07:10 +1000
  Re: error_t proposal Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2019-09-05 10:01 +0000
    Re: error_t proposal Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2019-09-05 04:36 -0700
      Re: error_t proposal Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-09-05 14:43 -0700
        Re: error_t proposal Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2019-09-06 05:01 -0700
          Re: error_t proposal Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-09-06 11:18 -0700
            Re: error_t proposal scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2019-09-06 19:34 +0000
            Re: error_t proposal Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2019-09-06 12:37 -0700
              Re: error_t proposal Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-09-06 20:54 +0100
                Re: error_t proposal Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-09-06 13:20 -0700
                Re: error_t proposal Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2019-09-06 13:43 -0700
                Re: error_t proposal Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-09-06 14:25 -0700
                Re: error_t proposal Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2019-09-06 15:14 -0700
                Re: error_t proposal Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2019-09-06 15:49 -0700
                Re: error_t proposal Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2019-09-06 18:44 -0700
                Re: error_t proposal Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net> - 2019-09-07 12:35 +1000
                Re: error_t proposal Ike Naar <ike@sdf.lonestar.org> - 2019-09-08 20:15 +0000
                Re: error_t proposal Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net> - 2019-09-09 09:30 +1000
                Re: error_t proposal Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2019-09-09 07:35 +0000
                Re: error_t proposal Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net> - 2019-09-09 19:44 +1000
                Re: error_t proposal scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2019-09-09 13:58 +0000
                Re: error_t proposal Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2019-09-10 14:24 +0000
                Re: error_t proposal Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net> - 2019-09-11 09:22 +1000
                Re: error_t proposal Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2019-09-10 16:48 -0700
                Re: error_t proposal Clifford Heath <no.spam@please.net> - 2019-09-11 10:45 +1000
                Re: error_t proposal Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2019-09-06 21:47 +0100
  Re: error_t proposal jadill33@gmail.com - 2019-09-05 07:04 -0700
    Re: error_t proposal Thiago Adams <thiago.adams@gmail.com> - 2019-09-05 07:36 -0700
      Re: error_t proposal jadill33@gmail.com - 2019-09-05 08:43 -0700

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