Re: Patch for FILE problems (was Re: -CURRENT is bad for me...)

[David O'Brien]

On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 06:31:53PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Peter Wemm writes:
> : If we had taken -current to 500, we could go to 501, 502, etc as 
> : required to stop killing our developers, and prior to entering 5.0-BETA we
> : go back to the next sequentially available major number (be it 5, or 6
> : if RELENG_4 bumps again).
> 
> I've had problems in the past going backwards on major versions of
> shared libaries.  The major problem is that if I have binaries that
> refer to libc.so.503, then when the major number is reverted back to
> 5, it is a nop because ld will use libc.so.503 for new binaries.

In the a.out days, yes.  Are you sure you've seen this in the ELF days?

> What's wrong with shipping with say libc.so.505 in 5.0 and then say
> libc.so.645 in 6.0?

HACK.
 
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-- David  ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
          GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX


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