On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Roland McGrath wrote: > (Switching to libio requires a > soname change, and when it will really buy us something is when we > implement pthreads, which will also require a soname change. Pthreads is > not likely to happen real soon, so if libio happened first there would be > two soname changes by the end of it.)
Excuse me if I'm missing something obvious or this has been discussed elsewhere: Why will implementing pthreads require a soname change? Won't it simply augment the existing ABI, or will it force some other interface to break? If pthreads goes in a separate library as is the case for Linux, I don't see any need for binary incompatibility, either forwards or backwards. -John
