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Date:      Wed, 30 Apr 2003 12:46:47 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   `Hiding' libc symbols (was Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen ...)
Message-ID:  <200304301646.h3UGklUx051071@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20030430164135.GB26508@madman.celabo.org>
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<<On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 11:41:35 -0500, "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org> said:

>   Package X defines a function named `strlcpy', that works well for
>   Package X and may or may not have any relationship to the `strlcpy'
>   we all know and love from OpenBSD.

> Which of the following scenarios is the least astonishing?

Secnario 4.  Package X fails to build with a linker error because the
user has attempted to define something that he is not entitled to
redefine.  (No, I don't know how to accomplish this with our existing
toolchain.)

-GAWollman



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