Improved maximum errno detection.

Previously, systems without sys_nerr (or _sys_nerr) were handled with an
assumption that errors start at 0 and continuous.  This is, however, not
something POSIX requires, and not true on some platforms.

Notably, on Linux, where sys_nerr is no longer available for newly linked
binaries starting with glibc 2.32, there are gaps in error list, which
used to stop us from properly detecting maximum errno.  Further, on
GNU/Hurd errors start at 0x40000001.

With this change, maximum errno detection is moved to the runtime code,
now able to ignore gaps, and also detects the first error if needed.
This fixes observed "Unknown error" messages as seen on Linux with
glibc 2.32 and on GNU/Hurd.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 28 deletions

diff --git a/auto/unix b/auto/unix
index ff9697a4e..845e41fc6 100644
--- a/auto/unix
+++ b/auto/unix
@@ -753,34 +753,6 @@ if [ $ngx_found = no ]; then
 fi
 
 
-if [ $ngx_found = no ]; then
-
-    # Solaris has no sys_nerr
-    ngx_feature='maximum errno'
-    ngx_feature_name=NGX_SYS_NERR
-    ngx_feature_run=value
-    ngx_feature_incs='#include <errno.h>
-                      #include <string.h>
-                      #include <stdio.h>'
-    ngx_feature_path=
-    ngx_feature_libs=
-    ngx_feature_test='int  n;
-                      char *p;
-                      for (n = 1; n < 1000; n++) {
-                          errno = 0;
-                          p = strerror(n);
-                          if (errno == EINVAL
-                              || p == NULL
-                              || strncmp(p, "Unknown error", 13) == 0)
-                          {
-                              break;
-                          }
-                      }
-                      printf("%d", n);'
-    . auto/feature
-fi
-
-
 ngx_feature="localtime_r()"
 ngx_feature_name="NGX_HAVE_LOCALTIME_R"
 ngx_feature_run=no