Re: [HACKERS] Win32 WEXITSTATUS too

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, ITAGAKI Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)oss(dot)ntt(dot)co(dot)jp>, PostgreSQL-patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Win32 WEXITSTATUS too
Date: 2007-01-22 19:54:39
Message-ID: 200701221954.l0MJsdP26083@momjian.us
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> > > Tom Lane wrote:
> > >> It should not be there at all. Do you see URLs in any of our other
> > >> error messages?
> >
> > > Sure, ideally, but how else can we give information about that hex
> > > value?
> >
> > It's not the responsibility of that error message to tell someone to
> > go look up the error number in Microsoft documentation. If they're
> > clueful enough to make any sense of the number beyond the strerror
> > translation we already provide, then they already know where to look.
> >
> > Even if it were the responsibility of the error message to suggest this,
> > a URL seems far too transient.
>
> I agree; more so given that the URL points to the Wine project pages.
> And it's not user documentation, but source code, which makes it less
> appropriate.

OK, so what suggestion do you have? I just proposed a few of them in my
previous email.

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