[fpc-pascal] Socket error messages

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Tue, 24 Sep 2013, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:

>>> How does one convert from the numeric value returned by SocketError to the 
>>> name of the error (specifically, to e.g. EsockEINVAL rather than 
>>> EsysEINVAL, i.e. to be in line with the definition of functions like 
>>> fpbind)?
>
>> use the errors unit. (specific for unix)
>>
>> It has a functiun strerror()
>
> But aren't those EsysEINVAL rather than EsockEINVAL etc.?

They are the same values. Sockets existed before the unix unit.
All these values are simply the POSIX error codes.
(some special cases notwithstanding)

Michael.