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SubjectRe: UID width
On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 12:11:50AM -0500, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:

> We can fix this without forcing people to recompile and without
> forcing a major version number bump on the shared library by using
> ELF symbol versioning. Eric Youngdale did a presentation on this
> one or two Linux Expo's ago, but as far as I know no one has
> attempted to actually use this to rev a libc interface to date.
> This would be a good test case, I think.

Hmm... where can I find an example of how to do this -- it sounds
promising.

I really want to clean the x86 kernel ABI up, but glibc2 still have
some API brokenness in there that needs fixing ASAP.



-cw

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