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Date:      Mon, 27 Mar 1995 14:35:17 +0100 (BST)
From:      Paul Richards <paul@isl.cf.ac.uk>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Cc:        davidg@Root.COM, bde@zeta.org.au, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: shared library versioning
Message-ID:  <199503271335.OAA10199@isl.cf.ac.uk>
In-Reply-To: <199503271324.XAA19834@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Mar 27, 95 11:24:51 pm

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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?

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  Paul Richards, FreeBSD core team member. 
  Internet: paul@FreeBSD.org,  URL: http://isl.cf.ac.uk/~paul/
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