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From: "Steve Simon" <steve.simon@snellwilcox.com>
Date: Wed,  2 Jun 2004 18:00:44 +0100
To: lucio@proxima.alt.za, 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] GNU Make
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> All I'm after is a somewhat less expensive approach to translating an
> error message to its nearest Unix errno.

Expense is related to how common an occurance the event is. Errors are
(hopefully) rare so their expense in supporting imported (IE ape)
software is not so unreasonable.

I thing texture error messares are one pf plan9's great streangths.

I have had sam give "/n/netware/a/b/xxx.c cannot open - file locked" 
on occasion. File locking is an alien concept to plan9 but I still
get the correct and informative error from the imported netware filesystem.

-Steve