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Date:      Tue, 20 Mar 2001 19:54:20 -0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/rpc.statd file.c 
Message-ID:  <200103210354.f2L3sKh53600@mobile.wemm.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010320184602.M29888@fw.wintelcom.net> 

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Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> * Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> [010320 18:34] wrote:
> > Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > > alfred      2001/03/19 17:36:42 PST
> > > 
> > >   Modified files:
> > >     usr.sbin/rpc.statd   file.c 
> > >   Log:
> > >   Included in the updated version of tirpc's sm_inter.x Sun added the
> > >   SM_NOTIFY procedure.
> > >   
> > >   Remove our hand-coded one as it was causing world breakage for
> > >   worlds compiled with NOSHARED=yes because the static linker is a
> > >   bit less forgiving (or not as broken as) our dynamic linker.
> > 
> > Not broken...  The symbol namespaces for dynamic linking are a hierarchy,
> > unlike in static linking.  It's simply different semantics.
> 
> I can forward you the error message you get when you try to link static
> if you'd like. :)

That isn't what I said.  The dynamic linker is not broken.  The rpc.statd
code was just incompatable with static linking due to different semantics.
I was commenting on the "or not as broken as" part.

Cheers,
-Peter
--
Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au
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