Binary compatibility loss regarding errno
Ulrich Drepper
drepper@redhat.com
Mon Dec 23 10:01:00 GMT 2002
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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