Re: [Bug-gnulib] Re: CVS update [cvs1-11-x-branch]: /ccvs/src/

[Derek Robert Price]

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Bruno Haible wrote:

>Derek Robert Price wrote:
>
>>>In particular the Woe32 stdio in MSVCRT does not usually set errno upon
>>>failure. I.e. it implements the C89 spec, not the POSIX spec.
>>
>>Now, that could cause problems.  I'd have to implement the entire
>>STDIO implementation using write and handling my own buffers to work
>>around that.  S'pose I could probably snag most of the implementation
>>from glibc...
>
>
>It may be easier to just use the Woe32 API instead of errno:
>
>  #ifdef _WIN32
>    FormatMessage(FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM |
FORMAT_MESSAGE_IGNORE_INSERTS,
>                  NULL, GetLastError (), 0, buf, sizeof (buf), NULL));
>  #else
>    perror (...);
>  #endif


Ah, thanks.  I didn't know that existed.  I'm not usually much of a
Windows programmer.

Cheers,

Derek

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