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Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 10:33:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
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On 9 Oct 2002, Robert Love wrote:

> On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 10:10, Marco Colombo wrote:
> 
> > >  #define O_NOFOLLOW	0400000 /* don't follow links */
> > >  #define O_NOFOLLOW	0x20000	/* don't follow links */

Hmm. It's been a long time since I had to use octal. Since 0400000
the exact same value as 0x20000, why not use 0x20000? It's much
more common notation.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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