On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 16:27:47 -0500
Michael Lorenz <macallan@netbsd.org> wrote:

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> Hello,
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> On Feb 26, 2007, at 16:20, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
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> > I tried running a 25 Feb kernel with a month-old userland.  Named
> > died in the thread library.  Is this a known breakage of binary
> > compatibility?
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> Yes, you need a new libpthread ( and probably libc ) - with that in
> place old binaries should Just Work again.
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Right; I did a full userland upgrade and all was well.  But this is a
much bigger mismatch incompatibility than we usually see.


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb