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Re: openoffice 1.0.1 vs glibc cvs

On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 02:08:13PM -0500, Jack Howarth wrote:
> Jakub,
>     Well as long as a user has JDK 1.4.1 I guess it isn't an issue
> however you might want to consider potential breakage if folks are
> still using JDK 1.3.1 and have installed StarOffice 6.0 installed
> (which might be using JDK). In any case, I don't see why everyone
> is rushing to make __libc_wait and __libc_waitpid GLIBC_PRIVATE if
> they are only exported for runtime resolution and not for linking.

Because those symbols are really private and we should be able to kill
them any time we decide so (e.g. changing the __libc_waitpid call
in nptl to INLINE_SYSCALL (wait4, ..., NULL) should be an option).

	Jakub
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