Re: [PATCH] make EAGAIN == EWOULDBLOCK on Windows

[Eric Blake]

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According to Paolo Bonzini on 10/3/2008 7:27 AM:
> This patch tweaks the mapping of error codes in the errno module and in
> winsock.c, so that under mingw EWOULDBLOCK is not different from EAGAIN.
>  It was inspired by the flock patch.

I'm in favor of the patch; this is the one shared mapping permitted by
POSIX 2001 (POSIX 200x, now ratified by IEEE but still awaiting ISO
ratification [1], adds the EOPNOTSUPP/ENOTSUP pairing, as on Linux, but
Bruno wanted to delay on that front [2]).

[1] http://www.opengroup.org/austin/mailarchives/ag/msg11759.html
[2] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2008-09/msg00161.html

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