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Re: Why this strange change?


Hello,

On Mon, Jun 28, David S. Miller wrote:

>    Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 09:09:59 +0200
>    From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>
> 
>    So you have an glibc 2 only source program which is not portable.
>    It's time to fix this source code.
> 
> So the X Window System is not portable and it should be made broken by
> this GLIBC change?

If I read the docu for other Unix versions like Solaris 7 correct, yes,
it is broken.
I haven't looked at the X Sources, it could be that this header file will
only be used with Linux/glibc and not on other Unix.

But from Solaris7 (man getpwnam):

The POSIX functions getpwnam_r() and getpwuid_r() return 0 upon success, or 
the error number in case of failure.

And I have tested it: getpwnam_r gives back the positive errno code. The
only difference to glibc is that Solaris doesn't set errno.

  Thorsten

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