From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: dmantipov@yandex.ru, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: h_errno?
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 21:44:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83k3q9s6o9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <511E87DA.8090203@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 11:09:14 -0800
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> CC: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> On 02/15/2013 02:19 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > I guess most of w32 functions that set h_errno can stop doing
> > that now.
>
> If memory serves, h_errno is part of an obsolete POSIX
> interface that Emacs no longer uses now, if the platform
> supports the current POSIX interface. As I understand it,
> the w32 code emulates the obsolete interface, so if the
> policy is to emulate the interface rather than do the
> minimal work needed to support Emacs, then w32 code needs to
> set h_errno when it emulates that interface.
The problem is that (a) w32 code sets h_errno to values that come from
errno.h, which is clearly wrong, and (b) it sets h_errno in many
network functions that are not documented to set h_errno, like accept,
recvfrom, sendto, listen, etc. I will fix both of these soon.
> The declaration of h_errno isn't needed in src/process.c;
> it's a leftover from some old code that was removed. So I
> removed the unused decl in trunk bzr 111791.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-15 19:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-15 9:10 h_errno? Eli Zaretskii
2013-02-15 9:46 ` h_errno? Dmitry Antipov
2013-02-15 10:19 ` h_errno? Eli Zaretskii
2013-02-15 19:09 ` h_errno? Paul Eggert
2013-02-15 19:44 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-02-16 11:11 ` h_errno? Eli Zaretskii
2013-02-15 11:57 ` h_errno? Andreas Schwab
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