[Mono-devel-list] Mono.Posix-OEE 0.1

Dan Winship danw at novell.com
Thu Sep 30 10:16:10 EDT 2004


On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 22:43 -0400, Jonathan Pryor wrote:
> The logic used is that "long" is assumed to change size between
> platforms (32-bit or 64-bit), but "int" will always be 32-bits.  
> Hopefully this is a sane assumption.

It is. Google for "ILP64" for some references, but basically, the only
platform where ints are 64-bit is the Cray.

> As mentioned in my last email, functions are placed in classes named
> after the header file they appear in.  So open(2) is in the Fcntl class.

Ew. I suppose it's consistent, but it's goofy to have open and close be
in different classes.

> What's the best way to directly set `errno'?

errno = 0;

-- Dan





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