Re: Where is thr_getscheduler

On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, John-Mark Gurney wrote:

> Steve Kargl wrote this message on Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 10:25 -0700:
>> Almost everything on a FreeBSD system depends on libc.  Bumping
>> its version number without careful coordination of bumping all
>> other version numbers is full of landmines.  Falling back of the
>> retort "this is -current expect problesm" just glosses over what
>> appears to be sloppy planning.
>
> Ummm.. don't we have have symbol versioning?  isn't this exactly
> what symbol versioning is for?  I haven't been following this
> particular discussion, but I thought now that we have symbol versioning
> in the tree that we never have to bump the numbers?  or is this failure
> to have a proper document to tell someone what to do when they change
> the API and provide the correct hooks for the new versions?

We have symbol versioning but it isn't enabled by default
yet.  We're waiting for the library versions to be bumped
before enabling it.  We can't support old non-symbol-versioned
ABIs (e.g. libc.so.6) in a symbol-versioned library so we
need to bump the library versions before enabling it.

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DE