From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 27 05:36:03 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id FAA09550 for current-outgoing; Mon, 27 Mar 1995 05:36:03 -0800 Received: from isl.cf.ac.uk (isl-gate.elsy.cf.ac.uk [131.251.22.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA09541 for ; Mon, 27 Mar 1995 05:35:53 -0800 Received: (from paul@localhost) by isl.cf.ac.uk (8.6.9/8.6.9) id OAA10199; Mon, 27 Mar 1995 14:35:18 +0100 From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199503271335.OAA10199@isl.cf.ac.uk> Subject: Re: shared library versioning To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 14:35:17 +0100 (BST) Cc: davidg@Root.COM, bde@zeta.org.au, current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199503271324.XAA19834@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Mar 27, 95 11:24:51 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 776 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Bruce Evans who said > > >> .. > >> will be no worse than the previous behavior. I suggest we just leave it alone > >> unless you have some other reason to bump the libc major number. > >> > > >Jordan's just added new hash code..... > > There is no problem for new interfaces, except possibly from namespace > pollution. How do we deal witht the problem of binaries that use the new interface being run on older systems with the old library? Are we bumping the minor number, does the linker do anything about this? -- Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org, URL: http://isl.cf.ac.uk/~paul/ Phone: +44 1222 874000 x6646 (work), +44 1222 457651 (home) Dept. Mechanical Engineering, University of Wales, College Cardiff.