Opened 7 years ago
Last modified 2 years ago
#1222 new enhancement
Rework error handling to make it work better with non-POSIX functions
| Reported by: | sjamaan | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | 5.4 |
| Component: | core libraries | Version: | |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Estimated difficulty: | medium |
Description
The core system is extremely ANSI/POSIX-centered. This means for example, that ##sys#update-errno and strerror are used all over the place.
Unfortunately, this makes handling errors unnecessarily hard when dealing with native Windows functions (and potentially similar on other platforms). Michele La Monaca [gave an example of how to deal with this http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/chicken-hackers/2014-10/msg00072.html] in a thread where he pointed out that rename-file is inconsistent across platforms when the target file already exists.
Change History (5)
comment:1 Changed 6 years ago by
| Milestone: | 5.0 → 5.1 |
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comment:2 Changed 6 years ago by
| Estimated difficulty: | → medium |
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comment:3 Changed 4 years ago by
| Milestone: | 5.1 → 5.2 |
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Getting ready for 5.1, moving tickets which won't make it in to 5.2.
comment:4 Changed 4 years ago by
| Milestone: | 5.2 → 5.3 |
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comment:5 Changed 2 years ago by
| Milestone: | 5.3 → 5.4 |
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This is mostly an internal reorganisation. I think we can do this in a later version without breaking too much stuff, so there's no reason to keep this on the 5.0 milestone.