From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7629 invoked by alias); 5 Nov 2004 03:27:45 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-hacker-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-hacker-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 7612 invoked from network); 5 Nov 2004 03:27:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO gateway.sf.frob.com) (64.81.54.130) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 5 Nov 2004 03:27:45 -0000 Received: from magilla.sf.frob.com (magilla.sf.frob.com [198.49.250.228]) by gateway.sf.frob.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BCDD357B; Thu, 4 Nov 2004 19:27:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from magilla.sf.frob.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by magilla.sf.frob.com (8.12.11/8.12.9) with ESMTP id iA53Ri3D006635; Thu, 4 Nov 2004 19:27:44 -0800 Received: (from roland@localhost) by magilla.sf.frob.com (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id iA53RhXd006632; Thu, 4 Nov 2004 19:27:43 -0800 Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 03:27:00 -0000 Message-Id: <200411050327.iA53RhXd006632@magilla.sf.frob.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Roland McGrath To: davidm@hpl.hp.com Cc: libc-hacker@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: second thoughts on using dl_iterate_phdr() for cache-validation In-Reply-To: David Mosberger's message of Thursday, 4 November 2004 18:09:18 -0800 <16778.57550.54390.106251@napali.hpl.hp.com> Emacs: or perhaps you'd prefer Russian Roulette, after all? X-SW-Source: 2004-11/txt/msg00014.txt.bz2 > I'm not sure I understand. You said the tree is currently closed for > new interfaces. All I'm asking is when you're expecting the tree to > reopen again. Actually, what I said is that the GLIBC_2.3.4 ABI is frozen. It doesn't necessarily work as you say. If there is a complete, desireable, and working new interface ready to go in, there is no "opening date" for it. It just won't be in the ABI version that is already frozen.