Re: Re: [HACKERS] 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: Mikhail Terekhov <terekhov@emc.com>, PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-08-17T15:38:58Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
OK.  Patch removed.

> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > I will try to apply it within the next 48 hours.
> 
> This isn't the right patch to apply, since Mikhail didn't fix the
> strerror problem.  I have some code from Magnus Naeslund that purports
> to handle the strerror issue, and will work it up into a patch real soon
> now.
> 
> >> I've implemented the SOCK_ERRNO macro only because
> >> both strerror and FormatMessage functions know nothing
> >> about sockets errors.
> 
> FWIW, Magnus says this works:
> 
> #define SOCK_STRERROR my_sock_strerror
> 
> const char* my_sock_strerror(unsigned long eno){
>     static char buf[512]; // i know, not threadsafe
>     if (!FormatMessage( 
>             FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM | 
>             FORMAT_MESSAGE_IGNORE_INSERTS,
>             0,eno,
>             MAKELANGID(LANG_NEUTRAL, SUBLANG_DEFAULT),
>             buf,sizeof(buf)-1,
>             0
>            )){
>       sprintf(buf,"Unknown socket error(%u)",eno);
>     }
>     buf[sizeof(buf)-1]='\0';
>     return buf;
> }
> 
> 
> Anyone have any objections to it?
> 
> 			regards, tom lane
> 

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