From:	Alain Magloire <alainm AT rcsm DOT ece DOT mcgill DOT ca>
Message-Id:	<199903170006.TAA15392@spock2.ECE.McGill.CA>
Subject:	Re: diffs for socket error codes and messages
To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Tue, 16 Mar 1999 19:06:17 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To:	<199903161923.OAA20274@envy.delorie.com> from "DJ Delorie" at Mar 16, 99 02:23:55 pm
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Bonjour M. DJ Delorie

> No, my issue was that there was more than one network library for
> DJGPP, so building one in would discriminate against the rest.
> 

Ok, I was under the (wrong) impression that libsocket was
_the_ networking library for DJGPP.

> I agree this would be good, but the question is: do the values used by
> libsocket match the ones defined by POSIX?  If not, we're wasting
> time, and should be fixing libsocket (et al) to match POSIX before we
> put the POSIX values in djgpp.

Agreed.
Posix 1003.1g describes error numbers for DNI/Sockets and for DNI/XTI.
I'll be happy to provide them, or Richard D. can forward me the patch.


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au revoir, alain
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