Re: WIN32 errno patch

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian - CVS <momjian@hub.org>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2001-08-02T15:47:55Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Any idea where we are on this?


> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > At this point, I am just happy we have this WIN32 errno thing working. 
> 
> My point is that it isn't "working", it's broken.
> 
> > My guess is that we should have two errno's.  One the normal errno that
> > is the same on Win32 and Unix and a sockerrno that is conditionally
> > defined:
> 
> I don't really want to uglify the code by replacing most of the "errno"
> uses with "sockerrno".  People know what errno is, they don't know what
> "sockerrno" is, so we'd be reducing the readability of the code in order
> to cater to Windows cultural imperialism (usual M$ philosophy: embrace,
> extend, and make sure Windows-compatible code can't run anywhere else).
> 
> Since there are only about three routines in libpq that need access to
> "regular" errno, it seems less invasive to #define errno for the rest
> of them, and do something special in just these places.
> 
> 			regards, tom lane
> 

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