From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/13656 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: u-uy74@aetey.se Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Symbol versioning approximation trips on compat symbols Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2019 10:36:50 +0100 Message-ID: <20190127093650.GB30123@example.net> References: <87r2d5evvi.fsf@oldenburg2.str.redhat.com> <20190124014340.GV23599@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20190124110931.GU21289@port70.net> <87sgxi718r.fsf@oldenburg2.str.redhat.com> <20190127040424.GA23599@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="146766"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-13672-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Sun Jan 27 10:37:30 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by blaine.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1gngsa-000c56-7W for gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Jan 2019 10:37:28 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 32183 invoked by uid 550); 27 Jan 2019 09:37:23 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-ID: Original-Received: (qmail 32162 invoked from network); 27 Jan 2019 09:37:23 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=x.fripost.org; h= in-reply-to:content-disposition:content-type:content-type :mime-version:references:message-id:subject:subject:from:from :date:date; s=9df9cdc7e101629b5003b587945afa70; t=1548581831; x= 1550396232; bh=YMiY6qVfOXDPXnJlpOFLq4umHJ/1u3qZgIuUxWvzr1g=; b=f w5jZF/RySE+JoFDd7SQPBZvWM7H+kOCDWtbWYgsausulvFQG9zewars6m38K3ANH JxOsCmNJXfyIJOjvcRXOd8aMoPZABO7CmQd6CzJTCfrL76+PxWPAY45F+/rK6zVV xMAqPnt0tXN6Dwg9E8LFXkiSYRKdah6j/xGsjuYZTEiUOVp7oDvhOB1Y506tsAXK Kb+enBUaRd5/valt9cxq5wGSSzwpKXRVWELEPhVytH71yWdsI4K4/yM6VPkyFHcU FfdGit/idelllkCUpZ7z0XeMvqARJdNhfnmIwulY9l4vUCBQd+L12YL23UxMFLIs IheFtKfj/iu9YaqVMFuVA== X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at fripost.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20190127040424.GA23599@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:13656 Archived-At: On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 11:04:24PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote: > For what it's worth, compat symbols would have let us remove symbols > that shouldn't have been put in musl, such as lchmod (which confuses > broken apps which wrongly expect that, if it exists, it should work) For what my integrator perspective is worth, exposing brokenness instead of catering for it is a Good Thing. Feature detection is one of the typical areas being messed up, in numerous softwares. Thanks musl for exposing the pitfalls and forcing upstreams think better. Rune