Update.

1999-05-27  Andreas Jaeger  <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>

	* manual/socket.texi (Host Names): Remove statement that h_errno
	needs to be declared since this isn't true anymore.
	Closes PR libc/1138.

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index d6d413d..4fac5bd 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+1999-05-27  Andreas Jaeger  <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
+
+       * manual/socket.texi (Host Names): Remove statement that h_errno
+       needs to be declared since this isn't true anymore.
+       Closes PR libc/1138.
+
 1999-05-26  Ulrich Drepper  <drepper@cygnus.com>
 
        * config.h.in: Add __LINUX_KERNEL_VERSION.

diff --git a/manual/socket.texi b/manual/socket.texi
index 5f31dd4..f8564ab 100644 (file)
--- a/manual/socket.texi
+++ b/manual/socket.texi
@@ -1236,12 +1236,7 @@ If the name lookup by @code{gethostbyname} or @code{gethostbyaddr}
 fails, you can find out the reason by looking at the value of the
 variable @code{h_errno}.  (It would be cleaner design for these
 functions to set @code{errno}, but use of @code{h_errno} is compatible
-with other systems.)  Before using @code{h_errno}, you must declare it
-like this:
-
-@smallexample
-extern int h_errno;
-@end smallexample
+with other systems.)
 
 Here are the error codes that you may find in @code{h_errno}:
 

diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/kernel-features.h b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/kernel-features.h
index 6813853..1bd7ba4 100644 (file)
--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/kernel-features.h
+++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/kernel-features.h
@@ -21,9 +21,6 @@
 /* This file must not contain any C code.  At least it must be protected
    to allow using the file also in assembler files.  */
 
-/* XXX For testing.  */
-#define __LINUX_KERNEL_VERSION 131584
-
 #ifndef __LINUX_KERNEL_VERSION
 /* We assume the worst; all kernels should be supported.  */
 # define __LINUX_KERNEL_VERSION        0