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Re: errno.h: ESTRPIPE
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According to DJ Delorie on 3/17/2009 3:31 PM:
> DJGPP says:
>
> ENMFILE -- No more files. @code{findfirst} and @code{findnext} assign
> this to @code{errno} when they exhaust the files in the directory.
> @code{readdir} does that as well.
>
> So, probably Cygwin-specific from newlib's point of view. Compatible
> with Borland, I think. Linux readdir() doesn't set errno when it runs
> out of entries, it just returns 0 instead of 1 (vs -1 for error).
Cygwin only uses ENMFILE internally; it should never be returned to the
user, since that would violate POSIX readdir(): "When the end of the
directory is encountered, a null pointer shall be returned and errno is
not changed." Technically, cygwin should not have polluted the errno
namespace with this internal detail. However, we can't remove it now, in
case existing code is compiled using that value.
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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