Re: WIN32 errno patch

Ian Lance Taylor <ian(at)airs(dot)com> writes:
> I think the clean way to handle this is something along the lines of
> what the CVS client does. On Unix, do this:
> #define SOCK_ERRNO errno
> #define SOCK_STRERROR strerror
> On Windows, do this:
> #define SOCK_ERRNO (WSAGetLastError ())
> #define SOCK_STRERROR sock_strerror

I've been trying to avoid uglifying the code like that, but perhaps
we have no choice :-(.

> (Then you have to write sock_strerror.)

Surely Windows provides a suitable function?

regards, tom lane