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Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 11:16:45 -0500 (CDT)
From: Mumit Khan <khan AT NanoTech DOT Wisc DOT EDU>
To: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: TCP Wrappers Port
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On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 09:36:55AM -0400, Prentis Brooks wrote:
> > I am willing to take that on.  Mumit's patch does fix the issue, I did not
> > realize that sys_nerr and sys_errlist were managed by _sys_nerr  and
> > _sys_errlist in cygwin.  Just a quick question, but where is that sort of
> > thing documented, in the API docs?  Once I know where to look for that stuff,
> 
> Actually I don't even know why the stuff begins with undersores.

It's an unfortunate decision that makes life unnecessarily harder for
existing code. New code of course should be using strerror() etc instead
of looking inside sys_errlist, sys_nerr etc, but there's lots of legacy
systems which lack strerror() interface.

Regards,
Mumit



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