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Re: What should athdir do w/ no support?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Wed Jun 21 23:47:50 2000
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
From: tb@MIT.EDU (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Date: 21 Jun 2000 23:47:43 -0400
In-Reply-To: John Hawkinson's message of "Wed, 21 Jun 2000 22:37:37 -0400 (EDT)"
Message-ID: <u1hbt0u8jhc.fsf@oliver.mit.edu>
John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU> writes:
> What should athdir do when the locker has no support
> for the architecture in question?
>
> It seems to return the null string now, which seems misleading.
> The manpage doesn't talk about what it does in such a case --
> I think it should say one way or the other. It seems like
> returning an error would be best.
Returning an error is probably a decent idea. Note that most uses of
athdir are probably inside ``, so it's not necessarily the case that
we have a good way of catching errors conveniently.
