X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org X-Mail-Handler: Dyn Standard SMTP by Dyn X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/sendlabs/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX1/soXd5ZzRCe8vo9K8ZQslz Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 11:00:42 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Side-by-side configuration is incorrect reported as permission denied Message-ID: <20120813150042.GA14176@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <5025C431.7050201@cygwin.com> <20120812170641.GC32748@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20120812205407.GA7337@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <5028B9D5.6050007@gmx.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5028B9D5.6050007@gmx.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 10:24:53AM +0200, Herbert Stocker wrote: >Hi, > >Imho, EACCESS is indeed a bit misleading because it suggests permission >problems. Better would be to have an EFAIL as a generic error. Actually i >was missing an EFAIL several times when my programs needed to return >an error code that did not match well with what i found in errno.h . > >On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 11:07:00AM +0200, Pawel Jasinski wrote: > >> If you can find a nice Linux errno which maps from ERROR_SXS_CANT_GEN_ACTCTX >> to something other than EACCES I'd be happy to change Cygwin. > >I had a quick poke into sys/errno.h and there i found 5 error codes >beginning with ELIB. One of those should suffice. My fafourite is this: > > #define ELIBBAD 84. /* Accessing a corrupted shared lib */ > >Because side-by-side problems may mean that the supporting DLL is >acutally there and can be read (also for execute), but the accompanying >XML file describes it incorrectly (e.g. wrong version number), the DLL >is not signed correctly, is not placed in the subdirectory whose name >is mandated by Windows, etc. > >> Otherwise, no, I'm not going to worry about this issue. > >There is no need for the 'no', i'd suggest ELIBBAD. "No need for the 'no'"? Huh? Huh? I ASKED for a suggestion. You provided one. You understand what the word "Otherwise" means right? cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple