Stop HTTPD908E guessing at STEPLIB for load failures - #215
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When LINK takes its error-return exit, no abend code reaches httpd -- libc370's __link() returns only -1 -- so HTTPD908E named a cause it had not established, and "not found in STEPLIB?" pointed away from the answer when the real cause was an S106-0F fetch failure. Say only what is known -- the module could not be loaded -- and leave the cause to the console log, where MVS already reports it. Fixes #210
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Fixes #210
HTTPD908E … could not be loaded (not found in STEPLIB?)named a cause it had not established. On theHTTP_LINK_ENOLOADpath the LINK SVC took its error-return exit and no abend code reaches httpd — libc370's__link()returns only-1— so the parenthetical was a guess, and in the measured case (#210, S106-0F fetch failure) it pointed away from the answer.The message now says only what is established:
could not be loaded. The cause is on the console, where MVS already reports it (IEA703Iin the storage case).docs/messages.mdis updated to match.Carrying the abend code in the message itself would need the ERRET register contents captured in libc370 first; that remains a possible follow-up there.