Dan Price wrote:
> On Wed 23 Aug 2006 at 07:59PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> >
> > >What about Solaris 10 ? Would it be possible to make a "flag day" for
> > >that OS release which covers all affected consolidations (e.g. consumers
> > >of libcmd.so) ?
> >
> > Yes - it's trickier, but doable.
> 
> Or you could simply use the filter trick Alan articulated earlier in
> a hypothetical S10 backport.

AFAIK this "filter" trick is not fully backwards-compatible as any
attempt to load single symbols via dlsym(3DL) would fail ... or not (Ok,
that's nitpicking - but it shows the limitation that this solution is
not fully backwards-compatible in very subtle ways) ?

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