From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Adhemerval Zanella Netto <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Cc: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>, libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] io: Fix record locking contants for powerpc64 with __USE_FILE_OFFSET64
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2023 11:19:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mvmbkeo6g5j.fsf@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZO4dGXTOMgEUq0nE@aurel32.net> (Aurelien Jarno's message of "Tue, 29 Aug 2023 18:30:17 +0200")
On Aug 29 2023, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> It does break some binaries, for instance File-FcntlLock [1] with the
> following scenario:
> - perl is built against glibc 2.37
> - system is upgraded to glibc 2.38
> - File-FcntlLock is built against glibc 2.38: it does not work as the
> value of F_GETLK has changed from 12 to 5 [2].
It happens all the time that an API change breaks some combination of
recompiled and not recompiled objects. But it is not an ABI break, only
a QoI issue.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-28 21:37 Aurelien Jarno
2023-08-29 7:59 ` Florian Weimer
2023-08-29 13:20 ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2023-08-29 16:30 ` Aurelien Jarno
2023-08-29 17:06 ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2023-08-30 9:19 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
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