X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 12:01:18 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Truncated Environment Variables? - using Cygwin + GetEnvironmentStrings() WIN32 API Message-ID: <20060502160118.GC982@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <44576A04 DOT 3090409 AT arkasoft DOT com> <001201c66df5$46bca0e0$a501a8c0 AT CAM DOT ARTIMI DOT COM> <20060502155721 DOT GB982 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060502155721.GB982@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 11:57:21AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >That's usually a good idea but I just noticed that cygwin-internal >doesn't set errno. There is no reason why it would have to, really, >since the interface is entirely local to cygwin and we can decide to do >what we want. However, I have changed it now so that it returns ENOSYS >when it is returning -1. To translate the above: I have changed the cygwin_internal function so that when the function is given an argument that it doesn't understand it will set errno to ENOSYS and return -1. This is likely to happen when a program is built with a newer version of cygwin but is trying to retrieve information from an older DLL. cgf -- 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/