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From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>,
       Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux should define ENOTSUP
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On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 02:59:48PM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> writes:
> 
> > Can you please quote chapter and verse (in POSIX) where it states that
> > ENOTSUP and EOPNOTSUP have to be numerically distinct?
> 
> <http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/errno.h.html>
> "Their values shall be unique except as noted below."
> (And there is no exception for ENOTSUP/EOPNOTSUP yet.)

Ah, but you're quoting from SuS, not POSIX.  (Yes, I'm splitting
hairs, but that's what standards are all about.  :-)

						- Ted
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