Double definition of errno?

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, Aug 19, 2002 at 08:42:24PM +0200, KJK::Hyperion wrote:
>>Regarding your plans to change errno in the reentrant syscalls, this is 
>>going to break a bunch of code because there are multiple reentrant 
>>routines in newlib that directly access the reentrancy struct errno.  This 
>>means that your new errno won't be set in many instances.
>
>I didn't mean this. The "true" system calls won't set errno, they will 
>return it as return value. It's much simpler this way, for a number of 
>reasons. The system calls actually exposed to the code will be simple 
>library calls encapsulating the "true" system calls, so they will be able 
>to access the reentrancy structure

Sounds a little like the way linux does things, IIRC.

cgf