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From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
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On Monday 05 April 2004 12:13 pm, Joshua Lokken wrote:
> * Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> [2004-04-05 12:06]:
> > On Monday 05 April 2004 11:51 am, Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> > > What would happen if a link called /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.5
> > > was created to point to the existing libintl.so.* file on Gerry's
> > > system?
> >
> > The library interface was changed and cross linking is a really bad
> > idea.
>
> I was able to work around the problem temporarily (on 4-stable) with
> the above method (symlink), but Kent is probably right that it's not
> an ideal solution.

It is worse than that. It is how off by one or many security problems 
crop up. You call a library function and it doesn't return what you 
think it was returning.

Find out what is wrong and fix the problem.

Kent

-- 
Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html