From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21292 invoked by alias); 20 Apr 2006 08:17:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 21032 invoked by uid 48); 20 Apr 2006 08:15:54 -0000 Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 08:17:00 -0000 Message-ID: <20060420081554.21031.qmail@sourceware.org> From: "jakub at redhat dot com" To: glibc-bugs@sources.redhat.com In-Reply-To: <20060420075407.2588.PARKINGSV@yahoo.com> References: <20060420075407.2588.PARKINGSV@yahoo.com> Reply-To: sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org Subject: [Bug libc/2588] Compatibility issue with errno and h_errno X-Bugzilla-Reason: CC Mailing-List: contact glibc-bugs-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: glibc-bugs-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-04/txt/msg00184.txt.bz2 List-Id: ------- Additional Comments From jakub at redhat dot com 2006-04-20 08:15 ------- You need to file a bug with whomever gave you the buggy software, glibc just warns you about a bug in it (and in RHEL{3,4}/Fedora Core{1-4}/CentOS{3,4} works around it, though note that in more recent distributions such buggy software is simply out of chance to work. errno is defined as *__errno_location () in glibc for more than 9 years, so any properly built program (that #include when it wants to use errno rather than violating the standards and definining it by itself) will not reference errno directly and will work just fine. -- What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |INVALID http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2588 ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.