Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 00:29:48 -0800 From: David Schultz <das@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Scott Long <scottl@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: libkse -> libpthread switch Message-ID: <20040207082948.GA1850@VARK.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <40249B01.7000102@freebsd.org> References: <20040205072422.GB11291@VARK.homeunix.com> <4023C100.2090305@freebsd.org> <20040207005520.GA7132@VARK.homeunix.com> <20040207.000718.29363133.imp@bsdimp.com> <20040207072710.GA1369@VARK.homeunix.com> <40249B01.7000102@freebsd.org>
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On Sat, Feb 07, 2004, Scott Long wrote: > David Schultz wrote: > >Yeah, I understand how it can happen, and I've even seen it on a > >Solaris box.[1] But Scott's message seems to imply that partially > >statically linked binaries work right now, and that we need to > >keep it that way moving into the next release, even at the expense > >of potentially breaking fully dynamic binaries. Perhaps he meant > >something else. > > > > No, not at all. My point was that people are going to run into these > hideous edge cases (netscape/mozilla plugins come to mind here), and > our official stance should be to recompile the app. The important thing > with going into 5.3 is that these kinds of problems need to be very easy > to diagnose by the user, and relatively easy to fix. I don't want > something that will obfuscate the problem or create a false sense of > security. The last thing we need is for the mailing lists to get > flooded with people complaining that 5.3 isn't stable merely because > of mis-behaving libraries. I see. So rather than having it ``just work'' 95% of the time and fail in some bizarre way the other 5% of the time, the plan is to declare a flag day and force everyone to bring their binaries to a consistent state. Though I don't entirely agree with that stance, I can't dispute it given that I don't have to deal with the volume of mail re@ must get over problems like this. Thanks for the clarification.
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