errno assignment problems

Geoff Keating geoffk@geoffk.org
Wed Aug 28 11:01:00 GMT 2002


> Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 04:56:49 -0700
> From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>

> Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> C).
> > Following programs do so on my box ((null) distro):
> > [...]
> 
> So what?  They work with the glibc they were linked against.
> 
> And until/if the size changes these program can finally be fixed.
> This is nothing which has to be treated with that level of urgency here 
> and now.

Would it be unreasonable to just remove sys_errlist (that is, make it
have no default version) in the next version of glibc?  Jakub's list
of programs that use it was not very long.

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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> <geoffk@redhat.com>



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