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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