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On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 11:57:28AM -0400, Earnie Boyd wrote:
Christopher Faylor wrote:
I think Earnie is saying that well-written code would notice the ENOSYS error and use alternative solutions at run time.
Correct, and the cygwin-apps review process would need to consider it manditory for the package acceptance/upgrade process.
But Corinna wasn't necessarily concerned about official cygwin packages, if I am understanding this correctly.
(Can you tell that I don't have a really strong opinion on this one way or the other? :-))
Me neither. :-)
If the caller doesn't check the return value, then it's not our fault, and thus not out problem. :-)
In relative terms of course. Whether "our" fault or not, the list will be the first place the confused user turns. It behooves us to find a way to mitigate, if not eliminate, this list noise if at all possible.
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