Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 11:08:02 -0400 From: Ken Smith <kensmith@cs.Buffalo.EDU> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: HEADS-UP: Planning on deprecating libc_r for 6.0 Message-ID: <1113404882.4412.7.camel@bloom.cse.buffalo.edu> In-Reply-To: <19352.1113403728@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <19352.1113403728@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 16:48 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <425D302C.1060006@samsco.org>, Scott Long writes:
>
> >> The user can disable it by adding a line in libmap.conf so let us
> > not invent more handles to tweak but point the user at the right
> >> one.
> >>
> >
> >Well, the worry is that there are legacy apps out there that rely on
> >features/bugs only found in libc_r, therefore the user can't just
> >switch.
>
> They'll have two years to find out if they start looking now.
>
> The more weird handles we add for people to tweak the worse FreeBSD
> becomes as a result.
>
I've been bitten by this stuff in the past so I'd appreciate having this
particular weird handle. Scenario goes something like this:
- Update base OS system
- <Vendor's backup package> stops working
- Grumble...
- Diagnose it, turns out the client widget from vendor
is using an old library interface which is now emitting
a helpful warning message saying it's been depreciated
which is interfering with the protocol between the
client and server.
- Begin discussion with vendor suggesting they update
their client widget but at the moment they don't have
a newer version
It's somewhat annoying to not be able to turn off the helpful warning
message in a simple way for someone managing more than a small handful
of machines.
--
Ken Smith
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