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bug#13958: Failing net-db.test on armv5tel glibc 2.17


From: Ludovic Courtès
Subject: bug#13958: Failing net-db.test on armv5tel glibc 2.17
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:47:36 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.130005 (Ma Gnus v0.5) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux)

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

> Ideally Guile would propagate the errno value.  But in your case it’s
> ENOENT, so the error message would be like:
>
>   failed to resolve host name: No such file or directory
>
> This is not really more helpful than:
>
>   failed to resolve host name: System error
>
> (That’s part of the reason why exceptions were invented.  :-))
>
> To me, that example is an argument in favor of the status quo in
> Guile—i.e., keeping EAI_SYSTEM handling as it is.

I went ahead and documented the missing errno value for EAI_SYSTEM.

Thanks,
Ludo’.





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