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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: "Lluís Batlle i Rossell" <viric@viric.name>
Cc: 13958-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13958: Failing net-db.test on armv5tel glibc 2.17
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:47:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ppyn2ltz.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ppz0wz7u.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\=22'\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?s\?\= message of "Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:48:37 +0100")

ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

> Ideally Guile would propagate the errno value.  But in your case it’s
> ENOENT, so the error message would be like:
>
>   failed to resolve host name: No such file or directory
>
> This is not really more helpful than:
>
>   failed to resolve host name: System error
>
> (That’s part of the reason why exceptions were invented.  :-))
>
> To me, that example is an argument in favor of the status quo in
> Guile—i.e., keeping EAI_SYSTEM handling as it is.

I went ahead and documented the missing errno value for EAI_SYSTEM.

Thanks,
Ludo’.





      reply	other threads:[~2013-03-25 21:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2013-03-14 14:03   ` bug#13958: Failing net-db.test on armv5tel glibc 2.17 Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2013-03-15 11:14     ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-03-15 11:34       ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2013-03-15 13:36         ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-03-15 13:40           ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2013-03-15 13:48             ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-03-25 21:47               ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]

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