Re: NSMessagePortNameServerWin32.m error

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 31 Jan 2007, at 17:23, Wim Oudshoorn wrote:

> Richard Frith-Macdonald <richard@tiptree.demon.co.uk> writes:
>
> > On 31 Jan 2007, at 16:25, Wim Oudshoorn wrote:
>
> > > but apparently the method +[NSError _last] does not exist.
> >
> > That method is implemented in base/Source/Additions/GSCategories.m
> >
> > Did something go wrong with your build of the base library somehow?
>
> I think I know what went wrong, we have patched an older GNUstep
> version with your changes and in our version there is no _last
> in GSCategories.  So that was my mistake.

You could use the fix from the stable branch rather than trunk.

> Worry:  The connection name is used on windows as the name
> of a mailslot.  Because mailslots names are modelled after filenames
> I am not sure if there are any implicit restrictions on connection  
> names.
> For example I would not be surprised if connection names like:
>
>     *
>     ..\a
>     a and a\b

The private _translate: method is used to map the supplied names into  
the mailslot names used internally ... it base64 encodes them, so  
there shouldn't be a problem.