On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 04:20, Michael Kerrisk
<mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> * Generally POSIX requires that each error name must have distinct
> associated value. EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are one of the few
> exceptions: POSIX permits, but does not require, that these error
> constants have the same value. On most systems they of course do have
> the same value. HP-UX is the most notable exception.
And VxWorks (which is probably used more than HP-UX).
Causes interesting compiler problems when porting code from VxWorks to
Linux that has
case -EGAIN:
case -EWOULDBLOCK:
Oops, duplicate case value...
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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