From owner-cvs-all Tue Jan 5 07:01:20 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA23715 for cvs-all-outgoing; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 07:01:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA23703 for ; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 07:01:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.1/8.9.1) id QAA75905; Tue, 5 Jan 1999 16:00:46 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des) To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysctl(3) References: <86d84tztdz.fsf@niobe.ewox.org> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 05 Jan 1999 16:00:46 +0100 In-Reply-To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav's message of "05 Jan 1999 15:28:08 +0100" Message-ID: Lines: 12 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: > Note that the sysctl syscall still returns the error code directly > instead of setting errno. Apart from sysctl(3), only IBCS2 and libmsun > use it directly. IBCS2 expects it to behave as it currently does, > while libmsun expects it to behave as it does not (but should?): Doh! IBCS2 runs in kernel mode, so of course it doesn't use the syscall. Disregard. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message