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19991201: need glob return values for FreeBSD (cont.)

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  • Subject: 19991201: need glob return values for FreeBSD (cont.)
  • Date: Wed, 01 Dec 1999 14:20:17 -0700
>From: Ted Wisniewski <address@hidden>
>Organization: .
>Keywords: 199912012046.NAA08614

Ted,

Thanks for the quick reply.

>I found 2 things that may be what you are looking for.  If need be,  I can
>send along the whole man page/glob.h if you need more context information.

I think that you sent along just what I was looking for.  FreeBSD uses
GLOB_ABEND instead GLOB_ABORTED.

>This lifted directly from the section 3 man page on glob:
>
>     The argument flags is used to modify the behavior of glob().  The value
>     of flags is the bitwise inclusive OR of any of the following values de-
>     fined in glob.h:    
>
>     GLOB_ERR         Causes glob() to return when it encounters a directory
>                      that it cannot open or read.  Ordinarily, glob() contin-
>                      ues to find matches.
>
> ...
>
>and
>
> ...
>
>     If glob() terminates due to an error, it sets errno and returns one of
>     the following non-zero constants, which are defined in the include file
>     <glob.h>:
>
>     GLOB_NOSPACE  An attempt to allocate memory failed.
>
>     GLOB_ABEND    The scan was stopped because an error was encountered and
>                   either GLOB_ERR was set or (*errfunc)() returned non-zero. 
>                                                            
>--
>|   Ted Wisniewski                  INET:  address@hidden          |
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Tom Yoksas