Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 31 Dec 2001 00:01:20 -0200 | From | Ralf Baechle <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][RFC] global errno considered harmful |
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On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 08:52:57PM -0500, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:
> > As user application are trying to use unistd.h and expect errno to get > > set properly unistd.h or at least it's syscallX macros will have to be > > made unusable from userspace or silent breakage of such apps rebuild > > against new headers will occur. > > How about conditionalising definition of_syscallX on __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__? > (http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/~buytenh/errno_ectomy-1-to-2.diff) > > I guess I'll go ask all arch maintainers' permission now..
Be careful, you'll have to fix at least util-linux (doubleplusyuck) and e2fsprogs.
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