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Re: [PATCH 3/4] mingw: move common functionality to win32.h

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Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Date
Sep 28, 2008, 09:10 UTC
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On Samstag, 27. September 2008, Dmitry Potapov wrote:
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> win32_to_errno was the first thing that implemented but then released
> that translation of Win32 errors to errno cannot be in general case.
> For instance, ERROR_BUFFER_OVERFLOW means ENAMETOOLONG here, but it
> can be translated to ETOOSMALL in other cases. How do you propose to
> deal with that?

We deal with that when the need arises, in an evolutionary manner. The first step is to *have* an error code translation routine.

-- Hannes
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