Olivier Galibert (galibert@xxxxxxxxx) said: > Ok, so glibc maintains backwards compatibility only for bug-free > programs. Show of hands, who has a bug-free program around? Of course we maintain it for programs that actually use the API the way they're intended. Here's an example - we had a bug filed once (this was years ago) about how someone's app was segfaulting when they tried to execute a helper program. Why? Because they weren't null-terminating the arguments to execl()! They pressed, and pressed - "this worked in RHL 4.2 - you need to support this!". But, realistically, if your code only worked by accident, you can't expect it to be supported eternally. Bill -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
