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.