current-users: Re: thread change and binary compatibility

Subject: Re: thread change and binary compatibility
To: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
From: Daniel Carosone <dan@geek.com.au>
List: current-users
Date: 02/27/2007 08:26:58

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On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 04:20:32PM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> 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?

Yes.  You need a libpthread.so that matches the removal of SA and the
switch to 1:1 threads, alas.  Just swapping the libs should be enough.

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Dan.

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