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bug#13958: Failing net-db.test on armv5tel glibc 2.17
From: |
Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
bug#13958: Failing net-db.test on armv5tel glibc 2.17 |
Date: |
Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:47:36 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.130005 (Ma Gnus v0.5) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) |
address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:
> Ideally Guile would propagate the errno value. But in your case it’s
> ENOENT, so the error message would be like:
>
> failed to resolve host name: No such file or directory
>
> This is not really more helpful than:
>
> failed to resolve host name: System error
>
> (That’s part of the reason why exceptions were invented. :-))
>
> To me, that example is an argument in favor of the status quo in
> Guile—i.e., keeping EAI_SYSTEM handling as it is.
I went ahead and documented the missing errno value for EAI_SYSTEM.
Thanks,
Ludo’.