Hi Sam, all,
> I think it would be a useful addition to the errno/strerror/whatever
> modules to be able to convert from the numeric errno to the symbolic
> one.
> e.g.,
>
> char * errno_name () {
> switch (errno) {
> #ifdef ENOENT
> case ENOENT : return "ENOENT";
> #endif
> default: return NULL;
> }
> }
>
> the idea is that the error "explanation" (returned by strerror) is
> different on different platforms (and especially if i18n is involved)
> and is hard to search for on the web and in docs, while strings like
> ENOENT et al are quite canonical and tell the expert everything they
> need to know.
Good point. The code for doing this is already present in clisp/src/errunix.d
and strace/**/errnoent.h.
Question to all: Are you interested in seeing such a function in gnulib?
Question to Sam: Are you willing to contribute such a module to gnulib
(and maintain it)?
Bruno
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