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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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