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Re: perennity of cygwin_internal(CW_GET_ERRNO_FROM_WINERROR,err)
On Aug 26 11:13, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen, le Fri 26 Aug 2005 11:05:21 +0200, a écrit :
> > On Aug 26 00:43, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > > While writing a library for instance, we'd like
> > > to return appropriate errno values, and for this
> > > cygwin_internal(CW_GET_ERRNO_FROM_WINERROR,err) would be much useful.
> > >
> > > Documentation says "Stay away unless you know what you're doing". Could
> > > it be removed some day, and hence we shouldn't use it?
> >
> > What do you want? Removal of the "Stay away" comment?
>
> Oops no: as Dave told me, my sentence was ambiguous. I'm asking whether
> the cygwin_internal(CW_GET_ERRNO_FROM_WINERROR,err) call could be
> removed some day, so that people shouldn't use it.
No, we don't usually remove calls to not break backward compatibility.
In this special case, cygserver needs the CW_GET_ERRNO_FROM_WINERROR
call, too, so chances that this will ever get removed are roughly below
the freezing point of helium.
Corinna
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