Messages in this thread | | | From | pageexec@freemail ... | Date | Fri, 10 Jun 2011 01:33:37 +0200 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86-64, vsyscalls: Rename UNSAFE_VSYSCALLS to COMPAT_VSYSCALLS |
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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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