Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 07:17:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: thompsa@freebsd.org, fullermd@over-yonder.net, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: Where is thr_getscheduler Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0608140717250.15185@sea.ntplx.net> In-Reply-To: <44DFE9C0.4010702@elischer.org> References: <20060802165604.GA970@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <Pine.GSO.4.64.0608021303120.7796@sea.ntplx.net> <20060802172505.GA1935@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20060813.145131.1172764406.imp@bsdimp.com> <44DFE9C0.4010702@elischer.org>
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On Sun, 13 Aug 2006, Julian Elischer wrote: > M. Warner Losh wrote: > >> In message: <20060802172505.GA1935@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> >> Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> writes: >> : Almost everything on a FreeBSD system depends on libc. Bumping >> : its version number without careful coordination of bumping all >> : other version numbers is full of landmines. Falling back of the >> : retort "this is -current expect problesm" just glosses over what >> : appears to be sloppy planning. >> I'm really hoping that we can stop bumping major versions of libc.so.7 >> when we go to versioned symbols. >> > > From my experienc, versioned symbols allows you to avoid about 50% of library > version bumps > but you still need them every now and then. > There are lots of other ABI changes that need to happen that symbol > versionning just can't help you with. > For example, changing argument types. No, you can handle that with symbol versioning too. -- DE
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