Re: RFC: Modify open() and opendir() to return handles

[Tom Christiansen]

>On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 08:13:09AM -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote:
>> No, that's gross.  A failed constructor should return undef.  See my 
>> later message.

>That has always been my view. But then people say "but why did it fail"
>and having global variables does not scale well.

Syscalls should use errno.  Others may vary.

--tom