On Mon, 24 Mar 2003, Matt Berney wrote:
> I have a client/server application that runs the client on a Linux
> workstation (RHAS) and runs the server on Win2k (under Cygwin). The
> client sends a filesystem command to the server and returns the errno.
> Here is the problem....
>
> The file system call on Win2k (under cygwin) generates the errno, but
> the text string for the errno is interpreted on the client-side (under
> Linux), using the strerror() function. As a result, the error message
> is mis-interpreted.
>
> For example,
> Win2k ENOEMPTY = 90
> Linux EMSGSIZE = 90
>
> In other words, the error that occurred was "Directory not empty", but
> the text displayed by the client was "Message too long".
>
> Any ideas how to resolve the discrepency?
>
> Thanks,
> Matt Berney
You mean, aside from the obvious "interpret the error on the server and
send a string to the client"? ;-)
Igor
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