RFR 8037274 (Round 0): sun.tools.attach.WindowsVirtualMachine#createPipe() needs more descriptive message when pipe creation fails

[Alan Bateman]

On 13/03/2014 12:29, Jaroslav Bachorik wrote:
> Please, take a look at this patch.
>
> Issue : https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8037274
> Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jbachorik/8037274/webrev.00/
>
> This patch adds an additional info to the error message issued when an 
> attempt to create a named pipe fails. This is supposed to help when 
> identifying the failure cause. The fix is pretty simple but the code I 
> produced might not be exactly aligned with the general C coding style 
> in JDK source base. If you see any violation, please, let me know.
This looks very odd. Does FormatMessage not give a useful message?

-Alan