The open() system call in f8 really broken...

[Steve Dickson]

Jeff Moyer wrote:
> 
> First, if your application needed to create a file and failed to, what
> will it do next?  Retry?  That will fail.  Exit?  How is this
> better than an abort with more useful information?
This is an uniform judgment as to how an application will do its
error recover... System libraries simply can't do that... When
a system library detect an error, it should return it to the
application to let it handle it!

steved.