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Added a new GaimEventLoopUiOps item, input_get_error(). This function allows the UI to return the current error status on a socket/input. If the UI does not implement it (as Pidgin and gntgaim do not, since glib's handling of sockets is sane), it is just a wrapper around getsockopt(). Implemented or not, its return values should match those of getsockopt() with a level of SOL_SOCKET and an option of SO_ERROR. For curious souls, Adium will be using this to provide a working version of getsockopt(); the CoreFoundation CFSocket class which is used for socket read/write calls getsockopt() with SO_ERROR itself, thereby clearing the error flag [as documented in getsockopt()'s behavior], so depending upon it for determining if an error occurred leads to significant misbehavior.

Notes on keeping GAIM OS independant
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General
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- Use G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S and G_DIR_SEPARATOR for paths

- Use g_getenv, g_snprintf, g_vsnprintf

- Use gaim_home_dir instead of g_get_home_dir or g_getenv("HOME")

- Make sure when including win32dep.h that it is the last header to
  be included.

- Open binary files when reading or writing with 'b' mode.

  e.g: fopen("somefile", "wb");

  Not doing so will open files in windows using defaut translation mode. 
  i.e. newline -> <CR><LF>

Paths
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- DATADIR, LOCALEDIR & LIBDIR are defined in wingaim as functions.
  Doing the following will therefore break the windows build:

  printf("File in DATADIR is: %s\n", DATADIR G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S "pic.png");

  it should be:

  printf("File in DATADIR is: %s%s%s\n", DATADIR, G_DIR_SEPARATOR_S, "pic.png");

PLUGINS & PROTOS
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- G_MODULE_EXPORT all functions which are to be accessed from outside the
  scope of its "dll" or "so". (E.G. gaim_plugin_init)

- G_MODULE_IMPORT all global variables which are located outside your
  dynamic library. (E.G. connections)

  (Not doing this will cause "Memory Access Violations" in Win32)