On Fri, 02 May 2008 09:53:59 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> That was my thinking; the MS consultants who were there were absolutely
>> beside themselves trying to figure out what was going on.
> 
> FWIW, that usually happens when a function returns an error indication
> but doesn't set the secondary information that says what error it was.
> Or, in C terminology, the function returned -1 but didn't assign
> anything to errno.   Yet one more reason to dislike C. :-)

Oh, yes, I do know that side of the coding - but that didn't make it any 
less funny, especially to see the MS consultants (and I'm not saying 
"Consultants who consult on Microsoft technologies", but "Microsoft 
Consulting") try to figure that one out. :-)

Jim

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