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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@whistle.com
Subject: Re: Undefined symbol "___error"
Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, jb@cimlogic.com.au, michaelh@cet.co.jp
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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)

It does, but libtermcap doesn't use it (after libtermcap is built with
the new errno.h).   Dusty decks that use `extern int errno;' and don't
include <errno.h> continue to work.

Bruce

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