From adb32fb42211397e8aed62ea51fd35f8d23e8bd5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: rswindell <>
Date: Sat, 8 Aug 2020 17:22:50 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Use Microsoft magic to "ignore regular line breaks in the
message definition text." of socket error strings on Windows: strips the
embedded line-feeds from the socket error description.
---
src/xpdev/sockwrap.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/src/xpdev/sockwrap.c b/src/xpdev/sockwrap.c
index 16f020c8c4..228851b872 100644
--- a/src/xpdev/sockwrap.c
+++ b/src/xpdev/sockwrap.c
@@ -506,7 +506,7 @@ DLLEXPORT const char* socket_strerror(int error_number)
{
static char msg[256];
- FormatMessage(FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM | FORMAT_MESSAGE_IGNORE_INSERTS, // dwFlags
+ FormatMessage(FORMAT_MESSAGE_FROM_SYSTEM | FORMAT_MESSAGE_IGNORE_INSERTS | FORMAT_MESSAGE_MAX_WIDTH_MASK, // dwFlags
NULL, // lpSource
error_number, // dwMessageId
MAKELANGID(LANG_NEUTRAL, SUBLANG_DEFAULT), // dwLanguageId
--
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