Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 17:30:57 +0900 (JST) From: Michael Hancock <michaelh@cet.co.jp> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG>, jb@cimlogic.com.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Undefined symbol "___error" Message-ID: <Pine.SV4.3.95.980514172621.1994C-100000@parkplace.cet.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980514001109.11116F-100000@current1.whistle.com>
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On Thu, 14 May 1998, Julian Elischer wrote: > I don't understand why the old errno can't continue to exist and be > updated by all syscalls. > (just for compatibility for now) In a threaded environment you need a per-thread errno for compatibility. There's no point in keeping 2 errnos around especially if one is going to be shadowed by the other anyway. In the single threaded app case, main will have a single thread associated with it and an errno specific to that thread. Regards, Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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