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Subject: Re: Where is thr_getscheduler
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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