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Date:      Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:57:19 -0800
From:      "David O'Brien" <TrimYourCc@NUXI.com>
To:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: installworld gotchas
Message-ID:  <20010212165719.F3038@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <200102120044.f1C0iLV01142@earth.backplane.com>; from dillon@earth.backplane.com on Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 04:44:21PM -0800
References:  <Pine.SUN.3.91.1010211190650.11437B-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com> <200102120024.BAA49364@midten.fast.no> <200102120044.f1C0iLV01142@earth.backplane.com>

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On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 04:44:21PM -0800, Matt Dillon wrote:
>    This is a major change to libc.  The library maj must be bumped if you
>    intend to change the sizeof(FILE), or every single third party application
>    that uses stdio will break.

For -stable this would be true.  We've already done the bump in -current.
-current users are expected to be able to work themselves over this
huddle.

Alternately, we should add symbol versioning to our shared libs like
Solaris does.


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