errno.h: ESTRPIPE

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Mar 16 08:29, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> This error code is used in sound-related code which Yaakov is trying to
>> port to Cygwin.  After a discussion on the cygwin-patches mailing list,
>> we decided to add this error code.
> Ouch ... bad decision.
>
>> Patch applied.
> Please ifdef __CYGWIN__ it or revert it.
>
> newlib should stay with well established standards and not be polluted  
> with underdocumented, proprietary extensions.

The error code is used at least in Linux and Solaris.  If we generate
our own Cygwin-specific error codes we will at one point have a errno
list where the same error code is used for different purposes on
different systems.  I don't see that this gains anybody anything.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Project Co-Leader
Red Hat