Iain K.Hanson wrote:
I would hope that if the POSIX naming is not used, that at least the documentation would contain a clear mapping between the POSIX name and the C++ name.We already have a standard portable error
>scheme. Why reinvent the wheel? Will we do any better?
We might. The POSIX errno scheme doesn't seem all that strong to me.
Agreed. I've given a fair ammount of though to this over the past year
( whilst working on sockets). The conclusion I came to was that I would
rather have a standard C++ name on what ever platform I work on than
keep having to look them up on every platform.
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