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Date:      Wed, 10 Feb 1999 02:17:39 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        dima@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru, wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, dt@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/include stdio.h src/lib/libc/stdio Makefile.inc fgetpos.c fseek.3 fseek.c fsetpos.c ftell.c
Message-ID:  <199902091517.CAA16311@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>However, there is a change I omitted that would, IMO, require a major 
>version bump: addition of (not so) new errno values to sys_errlist. :-|
>As I understand, applications dynamically linked with old libc will be
>confused by a change of size of this array...

No.  The old code should use sys_nerr to avoid accessing beyond the end
of sys_errlist[], even if it is too crufty to use strerror(), etc.

Bruce

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