On Mon, 29 Jun 1998, Stephen Ma wrote:

: It seems possible to fix things without the having a "broken window"
: by rebuilding the affected programs with static linking.

The problem would have broken third-party binaries as well, unfortunately.
It didn't maintain binary compatibility for binaries using old libutil.

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