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) ? ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
