Subject: Re: An errno for all seasons
To: None <tech-net@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Christoph Badura <bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org>
List: tech-net
Date: 10/30/1995 15:21:00
John Birrel writes:
>We're living with a threaded version of NetBSD's libc where errno is thread
>specific. By changing errno.h to define errno as:

>extern  int *__error();
>#define errno (*__error())

I believe POSIX requires errno to be writeable in order to detect the
indeterminate cases of sysconf()/pathconf().
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Christoph Badura	bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org		+49 721 606137

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