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 11:49:54 +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: <20050826094954.GA21899@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> <20050826090521.GA21203@calimero.vinschen.de> <20050826091351.GN5542@implementation.labri.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20050826091351.GN5542@implementation.labri.fr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Aug 26 11:13, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Corinna Vinschen, le Fri 26 Aug 2005 11:05:21 +0200, a écrit : > > On Aug 26 00:43, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > 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? > > Oops no: as Dave told me, my sentence was ambiguous. I'm asking whether > the cygwin_internal(CW_GET_ERRNO_FROM_WINERROR,err) call could be > removed some day, so that people shouldn't use it. No, we don't usually remove calls to not break backward compatibility. In this special case, cygserver needs the CW_GET_ERRNO_FROM_WINERROR call, too, so chances that this will ever get removed are roughly below the freezing point of helium. 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/