From 7be57d4b973a2280de50cdac7167692d73280e45 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marcus Brinkmann Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:53:19 +0000 Subject: 2009-07-17 Marcus Brinkmann * src/mkerrnos.awk: Output code to cause WSA Errors to be found from gpg error codes. * README: Add problem of translating error codes back and forth. --- README | 26 +++++++++++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'README') diff --git a/README b/README index 3cec868..505f28c 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -81,10 +81,22 @@ 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). +There are two problems with this support: + +* Not all error codes corresponding to WSA Error codes have a detailed + description when printed with gpg_strerror. Some will default to + "Unknown error" 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 + error" as printed by the system's strerror function for the argument + WSAEHOSTDOWN. (This could be fixed by adding our own error strings + replacing or extending the system error strings, including their + translations). + +* The translation to a gpg error code and back to a system error code + in some cases does not preserve information. For example, the error code + WSAEACCES translates to GPG_ERR_EACCES, which translates back to + EACCES. + +Any WSA Error code has either the first problem or the second (but not +both), depending on if there is a corresponding Windows error code. -- cgit v1.2.1