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Revision fbb9c0bf3c029caf02e531dac6df80b88f01b0a0 authored by Thomas Heller on 06 June 2008, 08:33:46 UTC, committed by Thomas Heller on 06 June 2008, 08:33:46 UTC
ctypes maintains thread-local storage that has space for two error
numbers: private copies of the system 'errno' value and, on Windows,
the system error code accessed by the GetLastError() and
SetLastError() api functions.

Foreign functions created with CDLL(..., use_errno=True), when called,
swap the system 'errno' value with the private copy just before the
actual function call, and swapped again immediately afterwards.  The
'use_errno' parameter defaults to False, in this case 'ctypes_errno'
is not touched.

On Windows, foreign functions created with CDLL(...,
use_last_error=True) or WinDLL(..., use_last_error=True) swap the
system LastError value with the ctypes private copy.

The values are also swapped immeditately before and after ctypes
callback functions are called, if the callbacks are constructed using
the new optional use_errno parameter set to True: CFUNCTYPE(...,
use_errno=TRUE) or WINFUNCTYPE(..., use_errno=True).

New ctypes functions are provided to access the ctypes private copies
from Python:

- ctypes.set_errno(value) and ctypes.set_last_error(value) store
  'value' in the private copy and returns the previous value.

- ctypes.get_errno() and ctypes.get_last_error() returns the current
  ctypes private copies value.
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History
Tip revision: fbb9c0bf3c029caf02e531dac6df80b88f01b0a0 authored by Thomas Heller on 06 June 2008, 08:33:46 UTC
Issue #1798: Add ctypes calling convention that allows safe access of errno.
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