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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!EU.net!sun4nl!fwi.uva.nl!not-for-mail From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik) Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Solaris 2.6 Supersedes: <cancel.casper.329c54f5@mail.fwi.uva.nl> Date: 27 Nov 1996 15:49:28 +0100 Organization: Sun Microsystems, Netherlands Lines: 41 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <casper.329c54f5@mail.fwi.uva.nl> References: <32986299.AC7@mail.esrin.esa.it> <57djlg$bks@agate.berkeley.edu> <57dkbq$bsr@panix2.panix.com> <casper.329abb76@mail.fwi.uva.nl> <57ej3a$7ij@panix2.panix.com> <casper.329ae8f2@mail.fwi.uva.nl> <57hhcp$kp9@innocence.interface-business.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: mail.fwi.uva.nl Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.solaris:90646 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1610 j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) writes: >> The dynamic libraries will need to retain the old "open" entry point for >> use by old applications. >Isn't open a syscall? No need for the libs to bother with. The >syscall vector of the kernel will handle this for you. Yes, but. There's no "ABI" defined for doing sycalls; the only defined ABI is the symbol names in the shared libraries. >It's funny that you're arguing a hypothetical case, while people >who've been gone through all this already tell you _that it simply >works for us_, ain't it? I've given plenty of arguments why it doesn't work. >With either the new or the old shared lib, it works. Neat trick. Do you use the same size for off_t? Was this a little endian machine? (Some difference as you get a bit more lee way in argument passing) Did you try assigning a > 32 bit value to off_t? >It's indeed a mess, sigh. >> Tell me, can you take 4.3 BSD .o files and link them to a 4.4 BSD program> >Does linking a 4.4BSD .o file against a 4.3BSD library also count? >Then see above. No, not really. And the other way around only counts if you can do it for *all* .o files. Not just one sample case. Casper -- Casper Dik - Sun Microsystems - via my guest account at the University of Amsterdam. My work e-mail address is: Casper.Dik@Holland.Sun.COM Statements on Sun products included here are not gospel and may be fiction rather than truth.