From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 14 7:44:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F69A37B4C5 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 07:44:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA12140; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 07:44:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@wall.polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id eAEFi4344295; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 07:44:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 07:44:04 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200011141544.eAEFi4344295@vashon.polstra.com> To: stable@freebsd.org From: John Polstra Reply-To: stable@freebsd.org Cc: rivers@dignus.com Subject: Re: libc shlib version In-Reply-To: <200011141236.HAA02062@lakes.dignus.com> References: <200011141236.HAA02062@lakes.dignus.com> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <200011141236.HAA02062@lakes.dignus.com>, Thomas David Rivers wrote: > Oh! You're right! We would need to change the loader to understand > the `scheme'. But, if we're going to change the loader, might > as well change the format, etc... Right. We aren't going to do that, because we think it is more important to follow established standards (warts and all) than to achieve perfection in some narrow technical sense. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message