Re: RFC 140 (v1) One Should Not Get Away With Ignoring System Call Errors

[Jarkko Hietaniemi]

On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 08:17:18AM -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote:
> >"The first operation done on the return value of open() shall be defined()
> >or you shall regret your pitiful existence."? (a flag on the scalar coming
> >from open that makes any other op than defined() to die and defined() clears
> >the flag)
> 
> No -- just true or false suffices.

Ahh, okay, so "the first operating done on the return value of open() shall
be a boolean test or I'll die() screaming", then?

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