Date: Mon, 27 Mar 1995 05:45:16 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, davidg@Root.COM Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: shared library versioning Message-ID: <199503261945.FAA29708@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>>The recent change to the msync() interface strictly requires incrementing >>the major number of libc.so. > I don't agree. The library itself should remain unchanged. Things would be >different if I had added a new syscall...but that's not what happend - I just >added an additional argument, and libc doesn't know about how many arguments a >syscall has. Yes, this problem can't be solved in the library. A new syscall is required. Old callers don't supply the additional arg. Bruce
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