From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 15 15: 5:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00E9E37B4EC for ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 15:05:10 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.2/8.11.1) id f1FN59j08434 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 15:05:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 15:05:09 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Patch for FILE problems (was Re: -CURRENT is bad for me...) Message-ID: <20010215150508.D3838@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200102130120.f1D1KpU56194@mobile.wemm.org> <200102130131.f1D1VrW33790@harmony.village.org> <3A895FA0.25EBC727@originative.co.uk> <20010213131802.B79651@dragon.nuxi.com> <3A89D5BF.D46B8FCC@originative.co.uk> <20010215021353.D66813@dragon.nuxi.com> <3A8BBA1E.A11923FB@originative.co.uk> <20010215033618.A17098@dragon.nuxi.com> <3A8BCF2A.8107E8A4@originative.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3A8BCF2A.8107E8A4@originative.co.uk>; from paul@originative.co.uk on Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 12:44:26PM +0000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 12:44:26PM +0000, Paul Richards_imap/mail.originative.co.uk/Inbox.sbd/New Mail.sbd/OpenLDAP.sbd/Devel wrote: > I suggest you take a look at > > http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/als2000/full_papers/browndavid/browndavid_html/ Yes, I know how Solaris does symbol versioning. FreeBSD does not have this technology today, so we cannot use it instead. The Linux way of doing this still has problems (see the Binutils mailing list). I'm waiting for the Linux way of doing this to fully settle and prove itself before I look at maybe using it for FreeBSD. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message