The following reply was made to PR lib/24324; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas)
To: Arne H Juul <arnej@europe.yahoo-inc.com>, gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: lib-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: lib/24324: telldir issues
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 20:32:46 -0400

 On May 19, 12:03am, arnej@europe.yahoo-inc.com (Arne H Juul) wrote:
 -- Subject: Re: lib/24324: telldir issues
 
 | On Sat, 13 May 2006, Brett Lymn wrote:
 | > About the only think I can see that would cause a bit of a pause is
 | > the fact that you changed the calling arguments in telldir() by
 | > removing "const", this would require a bump in the version number of
 | > libc to prevent binaries linked with old libc versions getting the new
 | > API.  I believe that his would be a bump in the major version of libs
 | > which is not done lightly.
 | 
 | you don't give any *reason* why this would require a version bump;
 | just saying it doesn't make it so.  Have you actually verified your
 | claim by testing, or could you at least make some plausible argument?
 | 
 |   - Arne H. J.
 
 I don't think that this requires a version bump. The only plausible issue
 would be if c++ was mangling the name, but this is not the case.
 
 christos