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Date: | Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:13:51 +0200 |
From: | Samuel Thibault <samuel DOT thibault AT ens-lyon DOT org> |
To: | cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, dave AT mielke DOT cc |
Subject: | Re: perennity of cygwin_internal(CW_GET_ERRNO_FROM_WINERROR,err) |
Message-ID: | <20050826091351.GN5542@implementation.labri.fr> |
Mail-Followup-To: | Samuel Thibault <samuel DOT thibault AT ens-lyon DOT org>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com, dave AT mielke DOT cc |
References: | <20050825224350 DOT GT7662 AT bouh DOT ens-lyon DOT fr> <20050826090521 DOT GA21203 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> |
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Corinna Vinschen, le Fri 26 Aug 2005 11:05:21 +0200, a écrit : > On Aug 26 00:43, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > While writing a library for instance, we'd like > > to return appropriate errno values, and for this > > cygwin_internal(CW_GET_ERRNO_FROM_WINERROR,err) would be much useful. > > > > Documentation says "Stay away unless you know what you're doing". Could > > it be removed some day, and hence we shouldn't use it? > > What do you want? Removal of the "Stay away" comment? Oops no: as Dave told me, my sentence was ambiguous. I'm asking whether the cygwin_internal(CW_GET_ERRNO_FROM_WINERROR,err) call could be removed some day, so that people shouldn't use it. > It doesn't mean you shouldn't use it at all, but you're on your own if > you play with it and break your application. Ok, thanks. Samuel -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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