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Re: TCP Wrappers Port


On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 11:16:45AM -0500, Mumit Khan wrote:
>On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 09:36:55AM -0400, Prentis Brooks wrote:
>> > I am willing to take that on.  Mumit's patch does fix the issue, I did not
>> > realize that sys_nerr and sys_errlist were managed by _sys_nerr  and
>> > _sys_errlist in cygwin.  Just a quick question, but where is that sort of
>> > thing documented, in the API docs?  Once I know where to look for that stuff,
>> 
>> Actually I don't even know why the stuff begins with undersores.
>
>It's an unfortunate decision that makes life unnecessarily harder for
>existing code. New code of course should be using strerror() etc instead
>of looking inside sys_errlist, sys_nerr etc, but there's lots of legacy
>systems which lack strerror() interface.

Why don't we add the non-underscore versions, then?  It sounds like that would
solve some problems.

I believe that the reason for the underscores is because that is the way
MSVC does it.  I don't know why someone decided that was what cygwin
should do, too.  It makes no sense to me.

cgf

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