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errno.h - EILSEQ
- From: "Chris January" <chris at atomice dot net>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2002 00:06:33 +0100
- Subject: errno.h - EILSEQ
> > > On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 10:01:36PM -0600, Dave Trollope wrote:
> > > >Since it exists on Linux and Solaris, I figured that this was new to
> > > >Cygwin and its applications. The question is, for what was it
> > > >introduced to both Linux and Solaris, and shouldn't it be introduced
to
> > > >Cygwin?
> > >
> > > That's rarely the question.
> > >
> > > The question is "Who's going to do the work to get it into Cygwin?"
> > >
> >
> > That was my next question if the answer to the first was yes.
> >
> > I would willingly create a patch myself, but I don't currently
understand
> > what this error code is for, I was hoping someone would know.
EILSEQ = illegal byte sequence and is used to indicate invalid multi-byte
character sequences. Since Cygwin doesn't support Unicode AFAIK, that's why
the error is not generated anywhere. Adding this error code means adding
Unicode support to Cygwin (and I don't think anyone would complain if you
submitted a patch for that! :-)
Chris
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