Re: [chat] you are in a maze of twisty little header files, all alike...

[Jan Schmidt <thaytan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<quote who="Benno">

> On Wed Jul 02, 2003 at 15:09:31 +1000, Jan Schmidt wrote:
> ><quote who="Jamie Wilkinson">
> >
> >> So I got a useful error message from curl just now:
> >> 
> >> curl: (7) socket error: 113
> >
> >*snip*
> >
> >> 113 means "host unreachable".  I think I might patch curl to add strerror
> >> calls in the right places :-)
> >> 
> >
> >As a time saver:
> >
> >jan@oven:/usr/include$ grep -r 113 . | grep errno
> >./asm/errno.h:#define   EHOSTUNREACH    113     /* No route to host */
> >
> >strerror sounds like a good patch to me.
> Or:
> 
> $ cat > perror.c

Wheeeee!

#!/usr/bin/perl
use POSIX;
print POSIX::strerror($ARGV[0]), "\n";

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Jan Schmidt                                  thaytan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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