Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 22:05:24 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Cc: jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby) Subject: Re: Questions for current hackers.. Message-ID: <199603132105.WAA12735@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.AUX.3.91.960313083735.20556A-100000@covina.lightside.com> from "Jake Hamby" at Mar 13, 96 08:41:59 am
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As Jake Hamby wrote: > 1) Why was libc's major version number bumped to 3? Was this to Some function has been dropped from the library (i forgot which one). > incorporate changes to make it thread-safe or for some other reason(s)? > Is it safe to assume that the version won't be bumped again before > 2.2-RELEASE? Yup, that's the policy. The version number will change at moste once between releases. Users of -current have to take care to always use the right shared lib, the major/minor # protection doesn't always work for them. (The VM questions must be left to John or David.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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