Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 00:12:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp>, jb@cimlogic.com.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Undefined symbol "___error" Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980514001109.11116F-100000@current1.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199805140603.BAA00594@dyson.iquest.net>
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I don't understand why the old errno can't continue to exist and be updated by all syscalls. (just for compatibility for now) On Thu, 14 May 1998, John S. Dyson wrote: > Michael Hancock said: > > On Thu, 14 May 1998, John Birrell wrote: > > > > > No, it's "relinked" so that a program will know to use the later libc. > > > The problem here is not that the libc major number needs to be bumped, > > > but *all* other libraries that use errno.h need a major number bump. > > > Bruce pointed this out. > > > > > > Bruce wants the change backed out. I haven't heard from anyone else. > > > Should I bump the major number of all the shared libraries in the > > > FreeBSD tree? Should I back out the change and forget about making future > > > objects thread-aware? Should I do nothing? > > > > Rre there any other pending changes that can bundled with the major number > > bump? > > > > We do need things to adjust for threads. > > > I think that we should use the new errno stuff, but should be done > more seamlessly. If we don't do it now, we'll have troubles sometime > in the future. > > -- > John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, > dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, > jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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