On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Mar 2011, Vincent Torri wrote:
>
> 1) in ares_init.c, the macro toolong() is using errno. I don't know how to
>> manage that for Windows CE (I don't know the code)
>>
>
> And there's no documentation anywhere for gethostname() that explains what
> it returns?
>
>
> 2) sometimes errno value is used directly (like toolong() but there are
>> other places where errno is used directly) sometimes it is SET_ERRNO / ERRNO
>> (in setup_once.h) which are used. I found that it is a bit inconsistent. Is
>> it normal ?
>>
>
> Are you asking if inconsistency is normal? Then yes, it most certainly is.
> But it isn't desired.
>
> As you can see SET_ERRNO and ERRNO don't use errno on windows so I guess
> those are prefered instead of using errno directly. But I'm not a Windows
> guy so I won't proceed and just change them as I can't test such changes
> myself!
>
yangtse (the windows maintainer ?) just did some changes about errno and
gethostname. I'll chek that this evening
Vincent
Received on 2011-03-22