On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:10:03 -0800 Xin LI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, Alexander, > > Alexander Kabaev wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 04:32:28 +0000 (UTC) > > David Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> davidxu 2007-12-20 04:32:28 UTC > >> > >> FreeBSD src repository > >> > >> Modified files: > >> lib/libthr pthread.map > >> lib/libthr/thread thr_syscalls.c > >> Log: > >> Remove vfork() overloading, it is no longer needed. > >> > >> Revision Changes Path > >> 1.21 +0 -2 src/lib/libthr/pthread.map > >> 1.17 +0 -9 src/lib/libthr/thread/thr_syscalls.c > >> > >> http://cvsweb.FreeBSD.org/src/lib/libthr/pthread.map.diff?r1=1.20&r2=1.21 > >> http://cvsweb.FreeBSD.org/src/lib/libthr/thread/thr_syscalls.c.diff?r1=1.16&r2=1.17 > > > > Technically, you just broke ABI backwards compatibility for libthr. > > Symbols can not be removed from exported sections on a whim. > > Being relatively new to this stuff, I think I get confused by this, so > we can link to libthr's "vfork" directly? It uses the same namespace > as libc did... > > Maybe we should write up some usage guidelines for this in developers' > handbook (I can give this a shot)... > The change does not break existing binaries, as libc will satisfy all references after fork symbol was removed from libthr. It just breaks general rule: we do not remove versioned symbols once they were released unless there's a library version bump. -- Alexander Kabaev
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