From owner-freebsd-current Sun May 3 00:03:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA20488 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 3 May 1998 00:03:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA20466; Sun, 3 May 1998 00:03:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.7) id RAA13488; Sun, 3 May 1998 17:05:12 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199805030705.RAA13488@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: errno change breaks old shared library linkage In-Reply-To: <199805030658.QAA09383@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "May 3, 98 04:58:01 pm" To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 17:05:11 +1000 (EST) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, jb@cimlogic.com.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG, jb@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bruce Evans wrote: > 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. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message