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Date:      Mon, 26 Feb 1996 19:23:29 -0800 (PST)
From:      "JULIAN Elischer" <julian@ref.tfs.com>
To:        pst@cisco.com (Paul Traina)
Cc:        julian@freebsd.org, hsu@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: gratuitous changes to db/hash.c for threadsafe operation?
Message-ID:  <199602270323.TAA14264@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <199602270235.SAA25831@puli.cisco.com> from "Paul Traina" at Feb 26, 96 06:35:39 pm

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It clashes with the errno in the thread_safe libc
which is a MACRO
#define errno (*__errno(current_thread))

or something similar
this is true in almost every threads package in the world...

> 
> 
> Does anyone know why the "errno" value in the hash structure was renamed
> to "error"?  This seems to be a gratuitous change that was made to the
> hash code, and I'd like to reverse it out if no one has a particularly
> good reason for its existance.
> 
> You two show up as reviewers of this code, so perhaps you can explain
> it to me?
> 
> I've incorporated the latest version of the db code into the csrg branch
> and would like to bring it into the mainline.  I'll preserve these changes
> if they serve a purpose, but I see none served here after looking at this
> pretty closely, so my default inclination is to revert the code to match
> the original author's.
> 
> Paul
> 




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