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Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 20:52:57 -0500
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
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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
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