Re: rgetmsg

Jonathan Leffler wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, David Williams wrote: > > In article <36250494.96E3A292@moody.edu>, Henry A.L. Wollman > > <hwollman@moody.edu> writes > > >How come rgetmsg returns the wrong description for an error code 100? <snip> > Using ~ to mean approximately. Any errors in the range -99..~-40 and > ~40..99 are liable to be misleading if you are using an System V machine. > The lower error numbers (~-39..~+39) are the same on both SysV and BSD > machines (because both derived from Version 7 Unix error messages), but the > larger numbers vary between the two platforms. However, the error message > files contain the BSD explanations, not the SysV explanations. So, for > example, ENOLCK error on SVR4 is 46, but the error message from the message > files is 'Protocol family not supported'. <snip> Am I missing something or would it have been simple for Informix to have sent out a different error message file for those of us with System V derived Unix? If it is simple, why didn't they do it? -- Peter Lancashire Information Systems Specialist, Bayer plc Eastern Way, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP32 7AH, UK Tel: +44-1635-562258, Fax: +44-1635-562281 --- If all else fails, read the instructions and the release notes. Join Infuse, the UK Informix User Group at http://www.infuse.org.uk/ ---