On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 03:57:13PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > Win32 itself doesn't use or define a variable called 'errno', but > gnulib does provide this variable when linked to Win32 programs.
This statement is inaccurate: Win32 does define errno, but only uses it for some "system level" functions. Yet another confusing part of the Win32 API, and a *third* way of handling errors in Win32 ... Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw