From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-12-05T12:38:00+09:00
Subject: Re: propagating errno from c extensions

Hi,

At Fri, 5 Dec 2003 11:57:05 +0900,
Ara.T.Howard wrote:
> any strong opinions on handling errno from c extentions?

rb_sys_fail()

> however i see many cases where functions simply return Qfalse, Qtrue, etc. for
> broad catagories of errno values - leaving the user to guess as to the cause
> of the error (eg. rb_file_flock).  is there are way of getting at errno that i
> am unaware of?  if so perhaps this is o.k....

rb_file_flock() raises SystemCallError except for the case it
would block.

-- 
Nobu Nakada