Re: [HACKERS] Win32 WEXITSTATUS too - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Win32 WEXITSTATUS too
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Msg-id 200701222010.l0MKA3u28975@momjian.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Win32 WEXITSTATUS too  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] Win32 WEXITSTATUS too  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > FYI, here are the URL's I mention in our source code:
>
> >  *      Wine (URL used in our error messages) -
> >  *          http://source.winehq.org/source/include/ntstatus.h
> >  *      Descriptions - http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~wuyongzh/my_doc/ntstatus.txt
> >  *      MS SDK - http://www.nologs.com/ntstatus.html
>
> I don't have a problem with mentioning those in a source code comment.
> I question the wisdom of putting any of them in the error message ...
> especially seeing that you haven't even found an "official" Microsoft
> page to link to.  None of those look to me like they're stable enough
> to expect to still be there in three or four years.

Agreed.  I propose we put the file in src/tools/msvc and link to our CVS
source tree or something.

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