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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: dima@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru, wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/include stdio.h src/lib/libc/stdio Makefile.inc fgetpos.c fseek.3 fseek.c fsetpos.c ftell.c
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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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