Shared library version bump?
Hajimu UMEMOTO
ume at freebsd.org
Sat May 13 19:51:49 UTC 2006
Hi,
>>>>> On Fri, 12 May 2006 13:44:58 -0400 (EDT)
>>>>> Daniel Eischen <deischen at freebsd.org> said:
> I wish to fix following things which break ABI backward compatibility
> when libc version bump:
>
> - gethostbyaddr(3) prototype to conform to POSIX.
> - Fix wrong usage of EAI_MEMORY in getnameinfo(). It needs to
> return EAI_OVERFLOW.
> - Update res_update() and friends to BIND9's one.
> - Nuke some compatibility crufts for 6.X and earlier.
deischen> Go ahead. Just realize though, that after 7.0 is released
deischen> you will have to support any ABI from then on without version
deischen> bumps (meaning, you have to keep shims for any old 7.0+ ABIs
deischen> in libc).
Okay, I'll do.
Sincerely,
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