On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 10:36:24PM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote: > On Tue, 5 Nov 2013, David Daney wrote: > > > Why can't the default version of the functions in question be fixed so that > > they do the right thing? That way you wouldn't have to rebuild old binaries. > > > > Do we really need new function versions at all? > > If we change RLIM64_INFINITY to match the kernel, then the right thing for > at least getrlimit64 depends on whether it's an old or new binary (for old > binaries it should return the old value of RLIM64_INFINITY and for new > ones it should return the new value). BTW, what happens on a distro where -dev packages are separate and the user compiles with old headers (not having upgraded the dev package) but new libc.so? :-) Rich
