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Re: glibc 2.1.96
Ulrich Drepper wrote:
>
> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com> writes:
>
> > I believe I wrote this back as well: this will affect *ALL* applications,
> > even those that don't need large file support. This change really needs
> > to happen, or any non-LFS application is DANGEROUS AND UNUSABLE.
>
> Right. So go out and preach to people to use LFS. LFS is not part of
> any standard since it is assumed to become the standard in due time.
> This is what has to happen now. You simply cannot change the ino_t
> size without bumping the libc major version since people define
> variables of this type.
>
Isn't that what symbol versioning is for?
-hpa
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