Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 10:31:02 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: jb@cimlogic.com.au (John Birrell) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, jb@cimlogic.com.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG, jb@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: errno change breaks old shared library linkage Message-ID: <199805031031.DAA26351@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199805030705.RAA13488@cimlogic.com.au> from "John Birrell" at May 3, 98 05:05:11 pm
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> > Or maybe not make the change. Many things still depend on the global > > `errno' existing and having the old semantics, beginning with libc > > itself (nice.c, Ovfork.S, ...), so the change doesn't actually work > > yet. > > The global errno is still "there", but it is not visible through the > headers which match the latest interface. The dependencies cited are coding errors. They are not threads-safe because of the coding errors. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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