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-rw-r--r--ChangeLog6
-rw-r--r--manual/socket.texi7
-rw-r--r--sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/kernel-features.h3
3 files changed, 7 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index d6d413d..4fac5bd 100644
--- 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
--- 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
--- 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