On Tue, 26 Apr 2011, Guenter wrote:

> NetWare doesnt have gai_strerror(), and I believe a couple more platforms
> dont have it - just take a look at f.e. PostgreSQL where they provide an own
> implementation for platforms which lack of it.

Right, the functionality is ridiculously simple as there's only 10 documented
error codes in POSIX...

> Also the Windows implementation is not thread-safe;

Given an error code the function should return a fixed string and they manage
to do that not thread-safe? Amazing...

I took Jeff's original patch and your feedback and ended up the following two
patches. Comments?

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se

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