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| author | Marcus Brinkmann <mb@g10code.com> | 2009-07-17 01:37:42 +0000 |
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| committer | Marcus Brinkmann <mb@g10code.com> | 2009-07-17 01:37:42 +0000 |
| commit | eea21ee9383f652b446d60208620590860621556 (patch) | |
| tree | 795e7bdfff0060e256c8afee2f0bb65373fea546 /README | |
| parent | 845c2608bb343d4b5faa8e15628a9d6747668369 (diff) | |
| download | libgpg-error-eea21ee9383f652b446d60208620590860621556.tar.gz | |
2009-07-17 Marcus Brinkmann <marcus@g10code.de>
* src/mkerrcodes1.awk: Output code to cause WSA Errors to be
transparently translated.
* src/code-from-errno.c [HAVE_W32_SYSTEM]: Don't include winsock2.h.
(w32_special_errnos) [HAVE_W32_SYSTEM]: Removed.
(gpg_err_code_from_errno) [HAVE_W32_SYSTEM]: Remove special case.
* README: Document problem with printing some WSA Errors.
Diffstat (limited to 'README')
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 14 |
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@@ -74,3 +74,17 @@ b) If you don't have any a trusted version of GnuPG, you can attempt Now check that this checksum is _exactly_ the same as the one published via the announcement list and probably via Usenet. + + +Known Problems +-------------- + +On Windows, WSA Error Codes can be provided as system error codes and +will be transparently converted to the corresponding gpg error codes. +However, not all of them have detailed description when printed with +gpg_strerror, but will default to "Unknown system error (NUMBER)" for +pretty printing. For example, WSAEHOSTDOWN will be translated to +GPG_ERR_EHOSTDOWN, but there is no corresponding EHOSTDOWN in Windows +and thus gpg_strerror will default to "Unknown system error (8029)". +(This could be fixed by adding our own error strings replacing or +extending the system error strings, including their translations). |