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Re: strerror(EAGAIN)


On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 04:29:05PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 04:10:43PM -0500, Jason Tishler wrote:
> >Is there any reason why Cygwin's strerror(EAGAIN) returns "No more
> >processes" instead of "Resource temporarily unavailable" as on other
> >UNIXes (at least Solaris and RedHat 6.2 Linux)?
> 
> If you submit a patch, I'll apply it.

See attached for above patch.

The following is the cygwin ChangeLog:

    * errno.cc (strerror): Change EAGAIN case to return "Resource
    temporarily unavailable" instead of "No more processes".

Thanks,
Jason

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Index: errno.cc
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/winsup/cygwin/errno.cc,v
retrieving revision 1.14
diff -u -p -r1.14 errno.cc
--- errno.cc	2000/10/12 04:38:29	1.14
+++ errno.cc	2000/11/05 19:04:43
@@ -334,7 +334,7 @@ strerror (int errnum)
       error = "No children";
       break;
     case EAGAIN:
-      error = "No more processes";
+      error = "Resource temporarily unavailable";
       break;
     case ENOMEM:
       error = "Not enough memory";

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