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Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 22:31:26 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Matt Berney <mberney AT polyserve DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Problems interpreting errno
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On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Matt Berney wrote:

> I have a client/server application that runs the client on a Linux
> workstation (RHAS) and runs the server on Win2k (under Cygwin).  The
> client sends a filesystem command to the server and returns the errno.
> Here is the problem....
>
> The file system call on Win2k (under cygwin) generates the errno, but
> the text string for the errno is interpreted on the client-side (under
> Linux), using the strerror() function.  As a result, the error message
> is mis-interpreted.
>
> For example,
>         Win2k ENOEMPTY = 90
>         Linux  EMSGSIZE = 90
>
> In other words, the error that occurred was "Directory not empty", but
> the text displayed by the client was "Message too long".
>
> Any ideas how to resolve the discrepency?
>
> Thanks,
> Matt Berney

You mean, aside from the obvious "interpret the error on the server and
send a string to the client"? ;-)
	Igor
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