Issue 823672: os.strerror doesn't understand windows error codes (original) (raw)

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Created on 2003-10-14 20:04 by theller, last changed 2022-04-10 16:11 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (3)
msg18637 - (view)	Author: Thomas Heller (theller) *	Date: 2003-10-14 20:04
For example, os.strerror(errno.EWOULDBLOCK) returns 'unknown error'.
msg18638 - (view)	Author: Martin v. Löwis (loewis) *	Date: 2003-10-24 20:15
Logged In: YES user_id=21627 Why is this a bug in Python? os.strerror just calls the system's strerror(3). If that doesn't know its own errors, how should Python know?
msg18639 - (view)	Author: Jack Jansen (jackjansen) *	Date: 2003-12-07 22:33
Logged In: YES user_id=45365 That depends: if the C library returns EWOULDBLOCK in errno and then refuses to understand it in strerror() this is indeed not Python's problem. But if the C library never set errno to EWOULDBLOCK but we somehow generate it (and grepping on EWOULDBLOCK seems to indicate there could be something fishy going on with EWOULDBLOCK and WSAEWOULDBLOCK) we should have the courtesy to understand it in strerror(). I'll leave it to someone else to decide whether this makes sense and the bug should be reopened.