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Re: perennity of cygwin_internal(CW_GET_ERRNO_FROM_WINERROR,err)
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.
> 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.
Ok, thanks.
Samuel
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