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Date: Sun, 3 May 1998 16:58:01 +1000
From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: bde@zeta.org.au, jb@cimlogic.com.au
Subject: Re: errno change breaks old shared library linkage
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>> broken by the issetugid() changes.  The errno change probably affects
>> more libraries and is harder to kludge around.
>
>You want me to bump _all_ major numbers that I can find?!

Or maybe not make the change.  Many things still depend on the global
`errno' existing and having the old semantics, beginning with libc
itself (nice.c, Ovfork.S, ...), so the change doesn't actually work
yet.

>For a major OS release (from 2 -> 3) relinking third party programs
>is reasonable. We just need to make the libraries consistent.

It's not reasonable.  It defeats the point of supporting old syscall
interfaces (olseek() etc.) through really major OS releases.

Bruce

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