Re: Meaning of sys_nerr (and porting programs)

[Gordon Matzigkeit]

tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes:

> Roland McGrath <roland@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > 1998-06-01  Gordon Matzigkeit  <gord@profitpress.com>
> > 
> >     * sysdeps/mach/hurd/errlist.c (sys_nerr, _sys_nerr): Make weak
> >     aliases for _hurd_nerr, for programs that don't use sys_errlist,
> >     but need sys_err.
> 
> First, that's a typo; it should read "but need sys_nerr", I assume.

I assume so, too.

> Second, I guess the assumption is that Gord ran across something that
> "needs" sys_nerr in some way.  I assume the particular need was a safe
> one, but still, I wonder what it was.

I wish I could remember what it was that used sys_nerr like that.  It
was back in the old days, so it was probably something like Bash.

One could always try removing the definition, and see what breaks when
turtle catches up.

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