[freetds] Return error proposal
James K. Lowden
jklowden at freetds.org
Wed Dec 17 11:01:55 EST 2008
Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> I personally never liked things
> like errno and returning a true/false for errors. Why not using a bit
> to distinguish error from success??
Hi Freddy,
Plauger comments on this in his book on the standard C library. He says
error processing is hard and that errno, while it looks messy, has
survived despite many suggested (even obvious) alternatives because it
works.
> For instance >= 0 for success and
> < 0 for error.
It requires bit-twiddling to get at the real error.
> But now even
> tds_connect_and_login return the error. Personally also I don't like
> an oserr in TDSSOCKET, errno usually don't have problems with thread
> on multi-threaded safe environment (that is major ones) but this errno
> have threads problems.
I'm unconvinced. The db-lib error handler passes oserr. Surely we can
copy a value to a tread-safe location for later inspection. You can't
pass an "errno is valid" flag because subsequent libc calls change errno.
Happy to discuss. :-)
Regards,
--jkl
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