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Re: BUG: Ability to access nonexistent directories
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie at users dot sourceforge dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 11:07:07 -0400
- Subject: Re: BUG: Ability to access nonexistent directories
- References: <000201ce52c4$891b04c0$9b510e40$%fedin at samsung dot com> <20130517083612 dot GE21752 at calimero dot vinschen dot de> <000d01ce52dc$74e54bb0$5eafe310$%fedin at samsung dot com> <20130517102655 dot GG21752 at calimero dot vinschen dot de> <20130517145612 dot GC7087 at ednor dot casa dot cgf dot cx> <20130517152206 dot GL21752 at calimero dot vinschen dot de> <20130517174857 dot GB660 at ednor dot casa dot cgf dot cx> <20130517180022 dot GQ21752 at calimero dot vinschen dot de> <5196B2F8 dot 6090902 at etr-usa dot com> <20130518082809 dot GB2406 at calimero dot vinschen dot de>
On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 4:28 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On May 17 16:45, Warren Young wrote:
>> On 5/17/2013 12:00, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> >
>> >Is that ENOFEL or EFLOCK?
>>
>> It depends. ENOFEL is the BSD way, but POSIX standardized the SysV
>> error constant, EFLOCK. Linux supports both, of course, so Cygwin
>> should, too.
>
> Hmm. I'm not too keen to add an error message fome something which
> could be fixed instead. Maybe we should consider to get us a cat
> instead?
And name the cat Bill. Then the error could be named ENOBILL.
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