Re: Bug#534398: ITP: libposix -- unifed implementation of core functionality of all Unix systems

[Michael Poole <mdpoole@troilus.org>]

Guus Sliepen writes:

>> Moreover, can libposix and libc coexist in the same address space?
>
> What address space are you talking about? There is also dietlibc and uClibc,
> who can coexist with glibc. But applications can only link against one of them
> at the time of course.

I suspect the concern here is dynamically linked libraries.

Suppose myapp is linked against libposix (for whatever reason).
Suppose libfoo.so is linked against glibc (for whatever different
reason).  Finally, suppose that myapp links against libfoo.so.  When
this happens, what breaks, how badly, and how obviously?

Michael Poole