errno.h: ESTRPIPE

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Fri Mar 13 21:00:00 GMT 2009


On Mar 13 10:50, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 06:10:48AM -0600, Warren Young wrote:
> > Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> This is very Linux device specific and this never occurs on Cygwin.
> >> What about just defining this error code to some arbitrary value like
> >>   #ifdef __CYGWIN__
> >>   #define ESTRPIPE 9999
> >>   #endif
> >
> > I like it.  If there are any other errno constants supported by Linux but 
> > not Cygwin, you could also define them with the same value.  It would 
> > effectively be the "this never happens" value.
> 
> I'm not sure that you got this but I think Corinna was suggesting that
> this should be defined in the code in question rather than in Cygwin
> itself.

Right.

> I don't have a problem defining unique errnos that currently never
> happen if it makes Cygwin more compatible with Linux.  I just think that
> the value should be marked as
> 
> /* Linux compatibility: this currently can never happen */

Hmm, this doesn't make much sense in the newlib errno.h.  We already
have a couple of errnos which are not generated by Cygwin without such
a comment.

> Yaakov's intent was to reduce the amount of special casing required when
> porting to Cygwin to remove the need to do #ifdef __CYGWIN__'s.  I think
> he knows that he could have ifdef'ed this since I suspect that he's had
> to do that many times in the past.
> 
> Defining a unique value means that, if we do decide at some point to add
> functionality which utilizes that errno the will be no need to recompile
> the application.

That's quite a good argument.  If you both think it's a good idea to
define this new errno, I'm fine with it, too.


Corinna

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