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Those files implement the "new" file handle API, which replaced FCB (File Control Block) from MS-DOS 1.0. It's somewhat inspired by Unix file descriptors. It s
by xeeeeeeeeeeenu 3y ago
Those files implement the "new" file handle API, which replaced FCB (File Control Block) from MS-DOS 1.0. It's somewhat inspired by Unix file descriptors.
It seems that "Unix" and "Xenix" were often used interchangeably in old Microsoft code. For example, there are 23 occurrences of "Xenix" in the MSVCRT.DLL source code (in the Windows 2003 SDK). This is one of them:
crt\stdlib.h:241:_CRTIMP extern int errno; /* XENIX style error number */