Subject: Re: bug#13958: Failing net-db.test on armv5tel glibc 2.17
From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Lluís Batlle i Rossell <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:47:36 +0100
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

[email-masked] (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’.