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Re: A patch for io/Versions and linuxthreads/Versions

To: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at valinux dot com>
Subject: Re: A patch for io/Versions and linuxthreads/Versions
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
Date: 09 Nov 2000 10:22:57 -0800
Cc: GNU C Library <libc-hacker at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
References: <20001109100549.B8670@valinux.com>
Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)

"H . J . Lu" <hjl@valinux.com> writes:

> 	* linuxthreads/Versions (libpthread:GLIBC_2.2): Move pread,
> 	__pread64, pread64, pwrite, __pwrite64, pwrite64, lseek64 and 
> 	open64 to ...
> 	(libpthread:GLIBC_2.1): Here.

This is wrong.  There were no such symbols in the 2.1 version.
Therefore applications which as linked against 2.2 and run with 2.1
will silently fail.  These are exactly the kind of things the
versioning mechanism is catching.

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