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Date:      Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:10:03 -0800
From:      Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net>
To:        Alexander Kabaev <kabaev@gmail.com>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG, src-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, David Xu <davidxu@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libthr pthread.map src/lib/libthr/thread thr_syscalls.c
Message-ID:  <476B126B.40004@delphij.net>
In-Reply-To: <20071220074756.5ac4b0c1@kan.dnsalias.net>
References:  <200712200432.lBK4WSEq036881@repoman.freebsd.org> <20071220074756.5ac4b0c1@kan.dnsalias.net>

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Hi, Alexander,

Alexander Kabaev wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 04:32:28 +0000 (UTC)
> David Xu <davidxu@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
>> davidxu     2007-12-20 04:32:28 UTC
>>
>>   FreeBSD src repository
>>
>>   Modified files:
>>     lib/libthr           pthread.map 
>>     lib/libthr/thread    thr_syscalls.c 
>>   Log:
>>   Remove vfork() overloading, it is no longer needed.
>>   
>>   Revision  Changes    Path
>>   1.21      +0 -2      src/lib/libthr/pthread.map
>>   1.17      +0 -9      src/lib/libthr/thread/thr_syscalls.c
>>
>> http://cvsweb.FreeBSD.org/src/lib/libthr/pthread.map.diff?r1=1.20&r2=1.21
>> http://cvsweb.FreeBSD.org/src/lib/libthr/thread/thr_syscalls.c.diff?r1=1.16&r2=1.17
> 
> Technically, you just broke ABI backwards compatibility for libthr.
> Symbols can not be removed from exported sections on a whim.  

Being relatively new to this stuff, I think I get confused by this, so
we can link to libthr's "vfork" directly?  It uses the same namespace as
libc did...

Maybe we should write up some usage guidelines for this in developers'
handbook (I can give this a shot)...

Cheers,
- --
Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net>	http://www.delphij.net/
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