From owner-freebsd-current Thu May 14 00:21:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA25473 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 14 May 1998 00:21:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA25466; Thu, 14 May 1998 00:21:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA20327; Thu, 14 May 1998 00:12:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd020325; Thu May 14 07:12:08 1998 Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 00:12:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: "John S. Dyson" cc: Michael Hancock , jb@cimlogic.com.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Undefined symbol "___error" In-Reply-To: <199805140603.BAA00594@dyson.iquest.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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