Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 12:56:39 +0100 From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> To: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libufs limitation trying to make newfs work on plain files Message-ID: <20081130115639.GA60027@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> In-Reply-To: <20081130105859.GF3045@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> References: <20081130043110.GA48062@onelab2.iet.unipi.it> <20081130105859.GF3045@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>
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On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 12:58:59PM +0200, Kostik Belousov wrote: > On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 05:31:10AM +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > libufs limitation trying to make newfs work on plain files ... > You proposal would introduce incompatibility in the ABI exposed by > one of the system library. The solution adopted by Linux and (recently) > by FreeBSD, is to use ELF symbol versioning. It seems that this case > can be handled by symver. As additional benefit, after your work > we would got one more symver-ed system library. could you point me to an example in freebsd that shows how to use this feature ? thanks luigi
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