Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Jan 1999 18:14:40 +1300 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: UID width |
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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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