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Subject: Re: Using weak referencing for uuid routines
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Hiten Pandya wrote:
> Hello gang.
> 
> I am sending a patch for changing the uuid part of libc to use weak
> referencing.  This was originally requested by Alexander Kabaev
> <kan@FreeBSD.ORG>.
> 
> If this patch is accepted, than I would like one of src committers to
> commit it for me.
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> 	-- Hiten (hmp@FreeBSD.ORG)
> 

What does this give us, and is it something that you are hoping to get
into 5.1?

Scott