Re: LSB wrapper library
On 3 Apr 2001, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> It will definitly be ugly - and I don't expect that it will work
> always reliable. We do have less problems IMO if we make a clear
> fork. I expect problems when the versions of the main libc and the
> LSB libc are too much different, especially if you use some obscure
> tricks (but I'm not really sure here).
There is definitly a point where glibc may evolve too far to be able to
only fork one or two libraries from it. When this happene,d then a
complete fork will have to be done. What would be nice to have though is
a small change that will let to start of easy, andnot have to start off
with a total fork.
Stuart
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