On Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 01:15:24PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:

 > Take for example the fear some, even experienced, developers have of
 > upgrading libc's major number.  There have been so many times where a
 > major number upgrade has been necessary due to API changes but some
 > developers are so paranoid about doing such an upgrade that they'd
 > rather introduce stupid and complex invisible interface naming tricks to
 > avoid what they see as a painful hassle.

Uh -- it's mostly an issue to 3rd-party interoperability.  We cannot
easily bump the major number of 3rd-party shared libraries, therefore
we use the symbol renaming trick (which, incidentally, Solaris also
uses...)

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>