From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@uni-koblenz.de>
To: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] global errno considered harmful
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 23:59:39 -0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011230235939.A16384@dea.linux-mips.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011230110623.A17083@gnu.org> <200112301956.OAA02630@ccure.karaya.com> <20011230190020.A14157@dea.linux-mips.net> <3C2F90E1.DADE7F54@didntduck.org>
In-Reply-To: <3C2F90E1.DADE7F54@didntduck.org>; from bgerst@didntduck.org on Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 05:10:41PM -0500
On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 05:10:41PM -0500, Brian Gerst 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.
>
> Userspace should be using glibc's unistd.h. If it's using the kernel's,
> it's broken.
A sufficient number take the unavailability of new syscall in everybody's
glibc as a sufficient excuse for broken code. util-linux as a major
offender comes to mind or also e2fsprogs.
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-12-31 15:43 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 [this message]
2001-12-31 16:48 ` Andreas Schwab
2001-12-31 21:42 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-12-31 1:52 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2001-12-31 2:01 ` Ralf Baechle
2001-12-31 20:56 ` Erik Andersen
2001-12-31 0:01 ` ertzog
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