Re: RFA: Support Windows extended error numbers in safe_strerror

Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-02-10T16:49:47Z

On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 11:18:00AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 09:53:10AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 17:37:19 -0500
> >> From: Daniel Jacobowitz
> >>
> >> Anyway, here's a patch updated in every way I can think of to make it
> >> less upsetting. Is this really better? Select to follow in the proper
> >> thread.
> >
> >I'm fine with this, if this is the best compromise we can reach.
>
> I'm wondering if a top-level "mingw" directory might simplify things here?
> Could most of the Windows accommodations be put in an "external" library
> and an external header file and just have gdb point to that?

I spoke with Chris about this a bit, offline; my general feeling is
that (for reasons previously discussed) this wouldn't help. For
instance we'd have to find some other way than knowing how handles
had been created to figure out how to properly select on them.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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