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Re: CVS commit: src




On Thursday, April 10, 2003, at 10:50  AM, Andrew Brown wrote:

why __unsetenv13()?  why not __unsetenv16() or __unsetenv17()?  i had
always assumed that the numeric suffix on a renamed function was
somehow indicative of the last release (or first release) that had the
new function...

It's really supposed to indicate the shlib major that the function would correspond to. The "14" functions are really goofs when the policy was not well-defined.

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej%wasabisystems.com@localhost>




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