check-abi failure with sys_errlist

[Carlos O'Donell]

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Joseph S. Myers
<joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Apr 2012, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>
>> The following is my current understanding of how we got into this
>> problem, and it's more complicated than I originally thought.
>
> Could you please put this on the wiki?  We want a page with both:
>
> * a description of how the errno code works;
>
> * consequent on this, information on how to go about adding an errno value
> to glibc.  Such information will be useful every time a new errno number
> is added to the Linux kernel.

It's on my todo list to add a internals page for this.

> Having studied the matter, does your review conclude Andreas's patch to be
> correct and so appropriate to go in now?

Yes, Andreas' patch is correct and should be applied.

Andreas, please check your patch in.

The patch does not fix machines in ports that have their own Versions.

Cheers,
Carlos.