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Re: errno.h: ESTRPIPE

From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at redhat dot com>
To: newlib at sourceware dot org
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:33:48 +0100
Subject: Re: errno.h: ESTRPIPE
References: <49B8A162.6080501@users.sourceforge.net> <49B8A936.3040003@rtems.org> <20090315134344.GM9322@calimero.vinschen.de> <49BDFFD6.8090102@rtems.org>
Reply-to: newlib at sourceware dot org

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

-- 
Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Project Co-Leader
Red Hat

Follow-Ups:
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References:
- errno.h: ESTRPIPE
  - From: Yaakov (Cygwin/X)
- Re: errno.h: ESTRPIPE
  - From: Ralf Corsepius
- Re: errno.h: ESTRPIPE
  - From: Corinna Vinschen
- Re: errno.h: ESTRPIPE
  - From: Ralf Corsepius

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