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Date:      26 Jan 1999 12:20:49 +0100
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
To:        Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org>
Cc:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, Boris Staeblow <balu@dva.in-berlin.de>, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Heads up! New swapper and VM changes have been committed to -4.x
Message-ID:  <xzpognmjn5a.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: Brian Feldman's message of "Mon, 25 Jan 1999 18:55:40 -0500 (EST)"
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901251855010.2040-100000@janus.syracuse.net>

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Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org> writes:
> On 24 Jan 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> > [...]
> > These are statically linked, and must be relinked after libkvm has
> > been rebuilt.
> > [...]
> > These are dynamically linked, and will automatically pick up the new
> > libkvm.
> But (most) still require the structures to be the exact same way,
> which is the reason for the recompile anyway... don't forget that!

No, because the libkvm interface has not changed, only its internals.
libkvm must be updated to be able to talk to the kernel, and
applications which use it must be relinked with it. In the case of
dynamically linked applications, this is done automatically at load
time. Or am I reading this wrong?

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no

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