Side-by-side configuration is incorrect reported as permission denied

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 10:24:53AM +0200, Herbert Stocker wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Imho, EACCESS is indeed a bit misleading because it suggests permission
>problems. Better would be to have an EFAIL as a generic error. Actually i
>was missing an EFAIL several times when my programs needed to return
>an error code that did not match well with what i found in errno.h .
>
>On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 11:07:00AM +0200, Pawel Jasinski wrote:
>
>> If you can find a nice Linux errno which maps from ERROR_SXS_CANT_GEN_ACTCTX
>> to something other than EACCES I'd be happy to change Cygwin.
>
>I had a quick poke into sys/errno.h and there i found 5 error codes
>beginning with ELIB. One of those should suffice. My fafourite is this:
>
>    #define ELIBBAD 84.     /* Accessing a corrupted shared lib */
>
>Because side-by-side problems may mean that the supporting DLL is
>acutally there and can be read (also for execute), but the accompanying
>XML file describes it incorrectly (e.g. wrong version number), the DLL
>is not signed correctly, is not placed in the subdirectory whose name
>is mandated by Windows, etc.
>
>> Otherwise, no, I'm not going to worry about this issue.
>
>There is no need for the 'no', i'd suggest ELIBBAD.

"No need for the 'no'"?  Huh?  Huh?  I ASKED for a suggestion.  You
provided one.  You understand what the word "Otherwise" means right?

cgf

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