On 06/28/2017 06:56 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> writes:
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.
Let's go with the generic error message I suggested, and leave adding
detail to the patch that converts to getaddrinfo().
OK, I will fix it right away.
Thanks,
Mao
