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From: "Bruce Ellis" <bruce.ellis@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] EWOULDBLOCK in APE
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:19:44 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <775b8d190803202219t281128a7i50f5902411b2ef06@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84d462a30803202107n6bc5bcc4n4a36e583d68077c4@mail.gmail.com>

well to be honest i did use up more than my share of wood blocks ...
but my fire was raging. in the early 80s when a thousand new errnos
were introduced it was a cocktail afternoon at basser, and i think it
was andrew taylor who looked at ENAMELON and exclaimed "And A Melon?"
... so i made melon daiquiris.

brucee

On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Skip Tavakkolian
<skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com> wrote:
> a couple of weeks ago brucee and i were looking for "wood block" on linux :)
>
> here's a little torture: which header file has the errno's on linux?
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:09 PM, Federico G. Benavento
> <benavento@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >  I think it's common on UNIX systems for EWOULDBLOCK to be a synonym for EAGAIN.
> >
> >  that's correct, at least acording to my POSIX man pages I have in the
> >  posix-man contrib package.
> >
> >
> >
> >  --
> >  Federico G. Benavento
> >
> >
>
>
>
> --
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-21  5:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-20 18:48 lucio
2008-03-20 19:21 ` ron minnich
2008-03-20 19:23 ` Richard Bilson
2008-03-20 20:09   ` Federico G. Benavento
2008-03-21  4:07     ` Skip Tavakkolian
2008-03-21  5:19       ` Bruce Ellis [this message]
2008-03-21  5:53       ` ron minnich
2008-03-21 13:18       ` Pietro Gagliardi

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