Bob Ham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just out of interest, are there any plans for glibc to have the facility > to report translator-specific error texts? Not sure how that would > work; I suppose you would have another errno variable which translators > could set and then have a strerror-like function that each translator > implements? Would that be an addition to the file protocol? I haven't > gotten into any guts proper yet so I'm not sure how translators go about > being translators.
It's been thought about. I don't know what the libc method would be, but the Hurd-level method would involve some kind of extention to the IDL.
