Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 11:05:21 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: Samuel Thibault , dave@mielke.cc Subject: Re: perennity of cygwin_internal(CW_GET_ERRNO_FROM_WINERROR,err) Message-ID: <20050826090521.GA21203@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com, Samuel Thibault , dave@mielke.cc References: <20050825224350.GT7662@bouh.ens-lyon.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050825224350.GT7662@bouh.ens-lyon.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Aug 26 00:43, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hi, > > While writing a library for instance, we'd like > to return appropriate errno values, and for this > cygwin_internal(CW_GET_ERRNO_FROM_WINERROR,err) would be much useful. > > Documentation says "Stay away unless you know what you're doing". Could > it be removed some day, and hence we shouldn't use it? What do you want? Removal of the "Stay away" comment? But it's true and right. It doesn't mean you shouldn't use it at all, but you're on your own if you play with it and break your application. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/