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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!usenet.kornet.nm.kr!ns.etri.re.kr!news.kreonet.re.kr!news.dacom.co.kr!vyzynz!newsfeed.concentric.net!news.texas.net!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!netserv.com!news.ossi.com!usenet From: merblich@ossi.com (Mitchell Erblich) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix ( Date: 23 Apr 1996 22:56:58 GMT Organization: Fujitsu Open Systems Solutions, Inc. Lines: 22 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4ljn7q$orr@news.ossi.com> References: <31784ED6.1047B01F@lambert.org> Reply-To: merblich@ossi.com NNTP-Posting-Host: guacamole.ossi.com ] ] "Self-verification will be used to assure conformance to the ABI+ ] specification. The ABI+ group does not wish to officially certify ] either systems or applications. However, the ABI+ group will be ] making available a family of verification tests that can be used ] by software developers[...]" Would all the "EOPNOTSUPP" returned error codes be part of the API when the operation is NOT supported and NOT the intended "Operation not supported on socket". I believe that both freebsd and netbsd should change these errors back to EINVAL. This is not proper behavior for a SYSV.3 or a SYSV.4 OS to behave. In addition what about the naming of a "pcfs" as "msdosfs". And .... :) Mitchell Erblich : merblich@ossi.com