On 28/06/2017 07:51, Markus Armbruster wrote: >> The gethostbyname() return a null pointer if an error occurs, and the h_errno >> variable holds an error number. herror() and hstrerror() can prints the error >> message associated with the current value of h_errno, but hstrerror() returns >> the string type is good for passing the error message to Error. So I'd prefer >> the hstrerror. >> >> As for the portability of hstrerror(), sorry, I'm also not sure, but in this >> case I tested, it's OK. so I want to use hstrerror() for a while, if there >> are >> any problem that can be fixed later. Do you think it can be done? > > Standard first portability question: does Windows provide it?
Nope. But it does have gai_strerror. Paolo
