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On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 04:34:41AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> The errno change was apparently done on or around July 25, 1992. That's
> the date on the "errno.h" file in the linux-0.97 archive, and it is
> consistent with the above release dates.
> 
> If anybody has newgroup/mailing list archives from around that time, it
> would be very nice to see what that finds..

> Btw: there is some incidental "evidence" that that original 0.97 version
> of <linux/errno.h> is automatically generated: the thing looks to have
> very regular whitespace. It looks like it was generated with
> 
> 	#define\t%s\t\t%2d\t/* %s */
> 
> and then tab-corrected for the symbolic name lengths.
> 
> I've found some archives for linux-activists, but no newsgroup archives 
> going that far back.. Anybody?

Probably we have the same archives. I see the announcement

 From: hlu@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu (H.J. Lu)
 Subject: Re: gcc-2.2.2 patches for linux?
 Date: 19 Jul 1992 15:42:48 GMT

 This is gcc 2.2.2 for Linux. It is on banjo.concert.net under
 /pub/Linux/GCC. Gcc 2.3 will support Linux, according to RMS.
 ...
 The following functions are added to libc.a.
 ...
 4. lots of stuffs added to errno.h and string/errlist.c.

Andries