Proposed F19 Feature: GLIBC 2.17

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Jan 28 17:31:12 UTC 2013


Florian Weimer (fweimer at redhat.com) said: 
> See <http://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Tips_and_Tricks/secure_getenv>
> for code snippets to implement in the change in a
> backwards-compatible fashion.  Unfortunately, glibc upstream
> insistent on renaming before making the symbol official.

I'm a little confused by the 'unfortunately' here - if apps are using a
private symbol, they should expect that they may need to change later.

Bill


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