From: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2008 09:10:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] mingw: move common functionality to win32.h
Message-ID: <200809281110.48256.johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
In-Reply-To: <20080927215102.GF21650@dpotapov.dyndns.org>

On Samstag, 27. September 2008, Dmitry Potapov wrote:
> 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