From owner-freebsd-current Sun May 3 03:32:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA12644 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 3 May 1998 03:32:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (daemon@smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA12563; Sun, 3 May 1998 03:31:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA09624; Sun, 3 May 1998 03:31:11 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd009607; Sun May 3 03:31:06 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA26351; Sun, 3 May 1998 03:31:02 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199805031031.DAA26351@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: errno change breaks old shared library linkage To: jb@cimlogic.com.au (John Birrell) Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 10:31:02 +0000 (GMT) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, jb@cimlogic.com.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG, jb@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199805030705.RAA13488@cimlogic.com.au> from "John Birrell" at May 3, 98 05:05:11 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] 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 > > 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