PATCH: Make _errno/errno available in GLIBC_2_0.
H. J. Lu
hjl@lucon.org
Tue Sep 16 21:15:00 GMT 2003
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 01:49:15PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> Your patch gives errno@GLIBC_2.0 users an `errno' that is always zero and
> never set by libc functions. That is worse than refusing to load, IMHO.
> I am not convinced that such ancient binaries really need to be able to run
> with NPTL, so as to warrant the effort of trying to do this right.
I am not against that. But it should be consistent between linuxthreads
and nptl.
FWIW, the "ancient" binary is portmap from RHAS 2.1.
H.J.
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