errno values: poll

Robert Lipe robertlipe@usa.net
Thu Jan 24 21:24:00 GMT 2002


> Please raise your hand if you have a system which is fundamentally
> Unix, and which defines E-constants in <errno.h> larger than 127.
> "fundamentally Unix" here means "has a real fork() primitive, and is
> not Hurd."

Is the return value of the question boolean or array?

SVR5 (UnixWare 7, OpenUNIX 8) has errno's going up to 223.  
OpenServer has several crossing that boundary, too.

(No, I don't claim they're either common or a good idea.)

RJL



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