RFA: Support Windows extended error numbers in safe_strerror

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 05:33:51PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> I'm feeling deja vu here.  I suspect that we've probably discussed this
> before.  :-)
> 
> If so, I probably said something like "Maybe we could just standardize
> on /bin/bash quoting and redirection rules and put a shell-like command
> parser in gdb."

Well, it'd work for me, but I have no idea if anyone relies on the
current behavior or not.

I guess we can come back to this one later :-)  I'll post a revised
patch on Monday and see if I can make folks a bit happier.

How would you feel if I created two MinGW-specific files, and would you
prefer not to be their maintainer?

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery