From owner-freebsd-current Mon Apr 8 18:00:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA17169 for current-outgoing; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 18:00:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA17150 for ; Mon, 8 Apr 1996 18:00:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-1) with SMTP id BAA01061 ; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 01:43:08 +0100 (BST) To: Tony Kimball cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: sys_errlist In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 08 Apr 1996 15:16:06 CDT." <199604082016.PAA12826@compound.think.com> Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 01:43:08 +0100 Message-ID: <1059.829010588@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Tony Kimball wrote in message ID <199604082016.PAA12826@compound.think.com>: > > Okay, so this is kind of silly, and I'm sure no one wants to hear > about it, but the declaration of sys_errlist in stdio.h is truly a > pain. I'll suggest that it be removed. You're right. It is a pain to have to correct broken s/w to understand 4.4BSD standards. Bug the authors/maintainers to correct their s/w. That variable has been declared through 3 releases of FreeBSD, and is in ALL 4.4 derrived BSD's... If you don't believe me, ask someone who was around in the pre-2.0 days (like myself) and porting s/w to FreeBSD... Sorry, I don't think it's going away or changing. Gary