Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 07:54:50 -0800 (PST) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: dima@tejblum.dnttm.rssi.ru, wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu, 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: <199902091554.HAA32440@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199902091517.CAA16311@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Feb 10, 99 02:17:39 am"
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Bruce Evans writes: > >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. Then perhaps this definition in /sys/sys/errno.h should have a suitable warning to that effect: #define ELAST 86 /* Must be equal largest errno */ -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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