Re: Boost.Threads draft library submission

From: williamkempf_at_[hidden]
Date: 2001-03-15 13:56:13

--- In boost_at_y..., "Peter Dimov" <pdimov_at_m...> wrote:
> From: <williamkempf_at_h...>
> 
> > You miss the problem here.  Yes, I could expose an errno that
> > implementation specific here.  But it's pointless in a portable
> > sense, since it IS implementation specific.  Client code can not 
make
> > use of the errno in a portable manner.
> 
> It can call std::strerror with the error code as an argument. If it 
comes
> from errno, then it must work with std::strerror, at least this is 
my
> interpretation.

When we say "errno" here we're not necessarily talking about the 
global std::errno variable.  We just mean an error code returned from 
an API.  Often these error codes are platform specific and 
std::strerror isn't going to help us translate them.

Bill Kempf