filePro Error

[Kenneth Brody]

On 7/26/2010 2:31 PM, John Esak wrote:
> Greg,
>
> No, no need for a call... I simply mean that the word Success tells me the
> programmer (meaning the people who write filePro) had something in the code
> while they were writing it to help them determine if the lockfile got
> attended to in some desireable way.  Then, they just forgot to remove this
> "debugging" code. I could be entirely wrong, but I don't see what else it
> could be.

Actually, when you ask the C runtime library "what's the text for error 
number N" and N is zero, it returns the string "Success".

Now, what caused filePro to see a failure code, yet leave errno set to zero, 
I couldn't say without seeing at least more information, and preferably a 
repeatable scenario.

[...]
>> From: Greg Widdows [mailto:lwiddows at bellsouth.net]
[...]
>>>> Using Linux, filePro version 5.0.14.
>>>>
>>>> Can someone help me out with what the following error might
>>>> pertain to.
>>>>
>>>> *** A System Error Has Occurred ***
>>>>
>>>> /u/appl/filepro/invoice/lockfile: Success
>>>>
>>>>                          OR
>>>>
>>>> *** A System Error Has Occurred ***
>>>>
>>>> : Success
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance.

-- 
Kenneth Brody