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Subject: Re: MAX_PID changes in 2.5.31
From: Robert Love <rml@tech9.net>
To: Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>
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On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 18:36, Richard Gooch wrote:

> In other words, "yes, unless you happen not to use SysV IPC semaphores
> or message queues in any of your binaries on your system". So you want
> to break binary compatibility. Please don't. I don't want to downgrade
> to glibc.

So are you saying we can never deprecate interfaces, just so you can
continue using libc5?

Seems saner to keep libc5 in sync with the kernel than vice versa..

	Robert Love

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