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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

  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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