Re: Patch?: linux-2.5.59/sound/soundcore.c referenced non-existant errno variable

From: Raja R Harinath (harinath@cs.umn.edu)
Date: Fri Jan 17 2003 - 21:49:36 EST

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Hi,

"Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com> writes:

> linux-2.5.59/sound/sound_firmware.c attempts to use the
> user level system call interface from the kernel, which I understand
> works on i386 and perhaps all architectures, but requires a variable
> named "errno."

Which is provided in-kernel (not for modules) by 'lib/errno.c'.

> (Actually, it mixed things like close() and sys_close(), but that's
> beside the point.)

Those are provided by <linux/unistd.h>, with __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__
defined.

> I could just declare a "static int errno;" in the file,

That was originally there, but removed in 2.5.57 IIRC.
<linux/unistd.h> has 'extern int errno;' -- so 'static int errno;'
would be a bug.

- Hari

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