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On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 12:36:49 -0500
Chase Venters <chase.venters@clientec.com> wrote:

> Unless 'errno' has some significant reason to live on in the kernel, I think 
> it would be better to kill it and write kernel syscall macros that don't muck 
> with it.

We have been working in that direction.  It's certainly something we'd like
to kill off.