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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86-64, vsyscalls: Rename UNSAFE_VSYSCALLS to COMPAT_VSYSCALLS
On 9 Jun 2011 at 8:48, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * pageexec@freemail.hu <pageexec@freemail.hu> wrote:
>
> > On 7 Jun 2011 at 11:56, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> > > Fedora was able to disable the fixed-address vdso in its newer 32-bit
> > > distro kernels because it *upgraded glibc*.
> >
> > and what happened to those apps that users statically linked against
> > the older glibc? what happened to their chroots that had dynamically
> > linked binaries with an older glibc? did you not break those either?
>
> There's two reasons why a distributor will generally not worry about
> that case:

so you went from "There was no breakage of binary compatibility." to
saying that you didn't care about it. you could have just admitted it
from the beginning.



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