Re: large file support && ! large file support

On Mon, 21 May 2007 20:55:29 -0700 Frank Cusack <fcusack@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| On 21 May 2007 22:43:27 GMT phil-news-nospam@xxxxxxxx wrote:
|> No, I certainly do not have that legacy. But even if I did I would not
|> take the approach POSIX LFS did. I would want to make it work for both
|> old and new programs, even if that meant having 2 or even 3 different
|> binary libraries (at least one being there for legacy ABI compatibility
|> for programs w/o source code available).
|
| That's nice on paper but really most software developers aren't that good
| and changing the default (to be LFS-ok) would IMHO have been a big problem.
| I can see even just requiring a re-link against a non-LFS library to be
| problematic.
|
| Anyway, I'll be very interested to hear of your solution.

My solution as I would have done POSIX LFS, or my solution for my libraries?

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