Subject: Re: Off_t & uid_t changes question
To: None <current-users@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu, salvet@nyx.dcs.muni.cz>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>
List: current-users
Date: 04/14/1994 14:04:35
>Will older static binaries run with -current kernel after off_t change
>to 64 bits ?
Yes, as will old dynamic binaries!
>If yes, how it was achieved ?
"Very carefully."
A combination of renumbering syscalls and bumping library revision
numbers was all that was necessasrly.
chris
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