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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PVM and FreeBSD
Date: 12 Nov 1995 16:27:50 +0100
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Thomas Graichen <graichen@julia.physik.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

>it's the typical FreeBSD (i think 4.4 lite) error if you port something to
>FreeBSD 

No, it's the typical error of all those nifty packages to declare
sys_errlist[] unconditionally.  The actual declaration for it has been
lurking around in <stdio.h> long before, but people did only start
noticing it when 4.4BSD (correctly!) converted the declaration to a
`const' one.

Thou shalst not declare system interfaces in thy program (unless the
system headers are broken).
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)