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Re: Binary compatibility loss regarding errno
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 10:02:04 -0800
- Subject: Re: Binary compatibility loss regarding errno
- Organization: Red Hat, Inc.
- References: <20021223160351.GA6289@nevyn.them.org>
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> This is a pretty severe problem, since it silently makes applications ignore
> errno.
It's not silent. The dynamic linker will not find a definition of errno
and terminate the application run. And that's what the program
deserves. The errno macro has been there forever. Fix your binaries.
I will not allow broken binaries to get into the way of progress.
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