Re: improve ssl error code, 2147483650

On 25.07.24 11:36, Daniel Gustafsson wrote:
>> On 24 Jul 2024, at 15:32, Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org> wrote:
>>
>> On 25.06.24 16:21, Tom Lane wrote:
>>> Peter Eisentraut <peter(at)eisentraut(dot)org> writes:
>>>> On 21.06.24 16:53, Tom Lane wrote:
>>>>> Most of libpq gets at strerror_r via SOCK_STRERROR for Windows
>>>>> portability. Is that relevant here?
>>>> Looking inside the OpenSSL code, it makes no efforts to translate
>>>> between winsock error codes and standard error codes, so I don't think
>>>> our workaround/replacement code needs to do that either.
>>> Fair enough.
>>>> Btw., our source code comments say something like
>>>> "ERR_reason_error_string randomly refuses to map system errno values."
>>>> The reason it doesn't is exactly that it can't do it while maintaining
>>>> thread-safety.
>>> Ah. Do you want to improve that comment while you're at it?
>>
>> Here is a patch that fixes the strerror() call and updates the comments a bit.
>
> LGTM.
>
>> This ought to be backpatched like the original fix; ideally for the next minor releases in about two weeks.
>
> Agreed.

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