Re: Fwd: Re: error.c: "Unknown system error" should report errno value

[Eric Blake]

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According to Martin Koeppe on 9/26/2007 7:02 PM:

Hi Martin,

>> rather than patching error.c, I went with the option of fixing Interix's
>> non-POSIX strerror instead (C99 and POSIX require strerror to always
>> return non-NULL, even on failure).  Perhaps you can give it a spin, since
>> I don't have an Interix environment set up?
> 
> Wait with the change! I just tested strerror() and strerror_r() on
> Interix, and they already report "Unknown error: 4294967294" for e.g.
> -2. Sorry.

Does the test-strerror.c program pass without the use of a replacement?
If so, then maybe the easiest thing is to just delete the strerror module,
under the assumption that it is portable after all for modern hosts.

> 
> While trying to debug this I noticed the missing translation from errno
> -1. But I now think it is probably a memory corruption issue or
> something like that, so that strerror()/strerror_r() gets confused, too.
> 
> Sorry for the inconvenience.

That's okay.

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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