Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 19 Aug 2002 16:47:30 -0600 | From | Richard Gooch <> | Subject | Re: MAX_PID changes in 2.5.31 |
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Robert Love writes: > On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 18:36, Richard Gooch wrote: > > > In other words, "yes, unless you happen not to use SysV IPC semaphores > > or message queues in any of your binaries on your system". So you want > > to break binary compatibility. Please don't. I don't want to downgrade > > to glibc. > > So are you saying we can never deprecate interfaces, just so you can > continue using libc5?
Having a stable ABI to user-space has been one of the strong points of Linux, versus just about everything else out there. And I wouldn't be using libc 5 if glibc wasn't growing exponentially with time (both in terms of total bytes and in terms of number of shared libraries I have to add to my link line).
> Seems saner to keep libc5 in sync with the kernel than vice versa..
It's not just me. There are people using libc 4.
Regards,
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