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Re: [freetds] Socket Error on Win2008 Enterprise & Windows Vista Enterprise

From: jklowden AT schemamania.org
To: FreeTDS Development Group <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [freetds] Socket Error on Win2008 Enterprise & Windows Vista Enterprise
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:36:01 -0500

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 01:04:58AM -0500, Paul Thurston wrote:
>
> I found the bug in the code.
>
> The Windows build (using VC9) is not calling INITSOCKET() which should be
> set to _tds_socket_init for WIN32.

Well done. That bug existed in the old codebase you're working with. For
about a year now tds_alloc_context() has called WSAStartup(), so socket(2)
cannot fail, at least not for that reason.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James K. Lowden
> Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 12:54 AM
>
> Memo to file: When compiling for Win32, it would be nice to call
> FormatMessage() to get something printable for the log.

File to memo: Good idea, already done, cf. tds_prwsaerror().

--jkl

[freetds] Socket Error on Win2008 Enterprise & Windows Vista Enterprise, Paul Thurston, 11/23/2009
- Re: [freetds] Socket Error on Win2008 Enterprise & Windows Vista Enterprise, James K. Lowden, 11/24/2009
  - Re: [freetds] Socket Error on Win2008 Enterprise & Windows Vista Enterprise, Paul Thurston, 11/24/2009
    - Re: [freetds] Socket Error on Win2008 Enterprise & Windows Vista Enterprise, jklowden, 11/25/2009