From: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@gnu.org>
To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@uni-koblenz.de>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@karaya.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] global errno considered harmful
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 20:52:57 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011230205257.A19891@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011230110623.A17083@gnu.org> <200112301956.OAA02630@ccure.karaya.com> <20011230190020.A14157@dea.linux-mips.net>
In-Reply-To: <20011230190020.A14157@dea.linux-mips.net>; from ralf@uni-koblenz.de on Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 07:00:20PM -0200
On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 07:00:20PM -0200, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> As user application are trying to use unistd.h and expect errno to get
> set properly unistd.h or at least it's syscallX macros will have to be
> made unusable from userspace or silent breakage of such apps rebuild
> against new headers will occur.
How about conditionalising definition of_syscallX on __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__?
(http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/~buytenh/errno_ectomy-1-to-2.diff)
I guess I'll go ask all arch maintainers' permission now..
cheers,
Lennert
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-31 1:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-12-30 16:06 [PATCH][RFC] global errno considered harmful Lennert Buytenhek
2001-12-30 19:56 ` Jeff Dike
2001-12-30 21:00 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-12-30 22:10 ` Brian Gerst
2001-12-31 1:59 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-12-31 16:48 ` Andreas Schwab
2001-12-31 21:42 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-12-31 1:52 ` Lennert Buytenhek [this message]
2001-12-31 2:01 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-12-31 20:56 ` Erik Andersen
2001-12-31 0:01 ` ertzog
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