Re: Glibc, large PIDs etc (Was: Killing clones)
Matthias Urlichs (smurf@lap.noris.de)
26 Aug 1997 17:24:01 +0200
"Michael K. Johnson" <johnsonm@redhat.com> writes:
>
> >Hopefully it's gonna be the last substantial libc change.
>
> That's what what was said about libc 5. (Yes, I understand the
> technical improvements in libc 6 -- but I understood the technical
> improvements in libc 5, too...)
>
We now have versioning support in glibc (2.1, but backwards compatible).
Thus, we _should_ be able to do this without ever having to switch to
libc-7.
> That's not the issue we are discussing, though. The issue is all
> the old binaries that are in use.
>
That _may_be_ in use. People who know what they're doing may well decide to
drop support for old_select(1) along with support for a.out.