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Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2019 10:36:50 +0100
From: u-uy74@...ey.se
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Symbol versioning approximation trips on compat symbols
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
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