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

[Graham Barr]

On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 09:01:44AM -0600, Tom Christiansen wrote:
> >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.

It's the other may vary that bothers me. Even the core modules
can't agree, but that is a discussion for the stdlib list.

Graham.