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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: asmwarrior@gmail.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: fix build error on MinGW (HAVE_READLINK) undefined
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:47:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d3a5z5lz.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F2296E7.1090705@redhat.com>

> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:21:59 +0000
> From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
> CC: asmwarrior@gmail.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> > But isn't ENOSYS sub-optimal in this case?  Systems that don't have
> > readlink don't have symlinks, either.  
> 
> Not necessarily true.  Might have symlinks but not a defined MAXPATHLEN,
> for example (I guess the Hurd may fall on that basked).

Could use PATH_MAX instead.  No problem here.

> E.g., if the file does not exist, we should return ENOENT instead.

We could check that as well, and return ENOENT.

> >>   *target_errno = FILEIO_ENOSYS;
> >>   return NULL;
> >> #endif
> > 
> > Which is wrong, don't you think?
> 
> I don't.

Too bad.  In my experience, saying "this is not a symlink" does TRT
more often than not.


  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-27 12:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-27  3:20 asmwarrior
2012-01-27  9:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-27 10:28   ` Pedro Alves
2012-01-27 12:22     ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-27 12:36       ` Pedro Alves
2012-01-27 12:47         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2012-02-03 11:47     ` [RFA/gdbserver] Provide dummy readlink on systems where routine is not available Joel Brobecker
2012-02-03 11:56       ` Joel Brobecker
2012-02-03 12:31         ` Joel Brobecker
2012-02-03 13:11           ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-02-03 13:26             ` Joel Brobecker
2012-02-09 16:32     ` [RFA/commit] gdbserver: return ENOSYS if readlink not supported Joel Brobecker
2012-02-09 16:41       ` Pedro Alves
2012-02-09 17:32         ` Joel Brobecker

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