On Montag, 8. Oktober 2007, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > But(!) you should not downgrade headers, this can cause very > > severe problems. > > Could you give an example?
ok, example. I might be totally wrong, so don't believe me: The splice system call was added with 2.6.17 and corresponding headers. If you build an application that has optinal (on compile time) support for this, but downgrade the headers after that to say... 2.6.10 you might see funny stuff happening. Headers are backward compatible, not forward compatible. glibc is similar - just try to downgrade glibc. You can't, portage won't allow it. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
