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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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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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>> 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 */

No.  sys_nerr is adequately documented in strerror(3).

ELAST seems to be kernel-only.  The kernel uses it instead of sys_nerr.

Bruce

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