Re: Is libc4 incompatible with libc6 envrionment?
On Wed, Nov 18, 1998 at 09:31:45AM -0500, cfm@maine.com wrote:
> Re: Could libc4 programs be incompatible with libc6 environment?
>
> We have some older libc4 programs: Tia, kerberos4, our
> accounting packages and a whole raft of customer cgi scripts
> come to mind right off.
>
> After upgrading to libc6 AND development kernel 2.1.127 (de jour)
> we found that kadmin - our kerberos admin tool - segfaults when
> it tries to update/add a password, presumably when it is
> talking to the kadmind daemon at the end of the routine.
>
> root@gray:/usr/kerberos/bin# ldd kadmin
> libc.so.4 (DLL Jump 4.5pl24) => /lib/libc.so.4
> root@gray:/lib# ls -l /lib/libc.so.4*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Mar 27 1997 /lib/libc.so.4 -> libc.so.4.6.27
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 634880 Dec 13 1994 /lib/libc.so.4.6.27
>
> Is there a chance that changes in network structures/kernel headers
> could obsolete these older libc4 programs?
Quite possibly. We really haven't managed to support compatibility
back this far, since we don't have the tools to build libc4 available
any more...
Dan
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