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

Chuck McDevitt wrote:
> Win32 exception codes start with a two-bit severity indication.
> 00 means "success", so nothing is wrong.
> 01 is an "informational" messages.
> 10 is a "warning" message.
> 11 is an "error".
>
> That's why the common exception codes you see start with hex C0, as they
> are "errors".
>
> The rest of the top 16 bits are the "facility" that caused the error.
> Often not filled in.
>
> To Convert an NT exception code (ntstatus) to a Win32 error code, you
> call this routine:
>
> ULONG RtlNtStatusToDosError(
>   NTSTATUS Status
> );
>
>
> Then you can pass it to FormatMessage and it will work.

I looked on MinGW and it seems it doesn't support
RtlNtStatusToDosError(), so I just added a comment that some day we
might want to use it:

 *  Some day we might want to print descriptions for the most common
 *  exceptions, rather than printing an include file name.  We could use
 *  RtlNtStatusToDosError() and pass to FormatMessage(), which can print
 *  the text of error values, but MinGW does not support
 *  RtlNtStatusToDosError().

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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-patches-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-patches-owner@postgresql.org] On Behalf Of Bruce Momjian
> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 7:35 AM
> To: Tom Lane
> Cc: Magnus Hagander; Takayuki Tsunakawa; PostgreSQL-patches; Alvaro
> Herrera; ITAGAKI Takahiro
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-patches] [HACKERS] Win32 WEXITSTATUS too
>
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > > Magnus Hagander wrote:
> > >> Now, if we're only caring about exit() from *postgresqls own
> processes*,
> > >> that might hold true. In which case I withdraw that objection as
> long as
> > >> the comment i updated to reflect this ;-) But if we're talking
> about
> > >> exit() in general of any process, then it's simply wrong.
> >
> > > Right, that code is only used by the backend and tools.
> >
> > We can reasonably assume that no Postgres code will exit() with a
> value
> > bigger than 255, because to do so would be unportable.
> >
> > I'm more concerned about the other direction: can we be sure that a
> > status value less than 255 is from exit() rather than something that
> > should be called an exception?
>
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