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RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: Important change to symbolic link functionality
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- Subject: RE: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: Important change to symbolic link functionality
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- Date: 2001年2月22日 13:09:12 +1100
- Thread-Index: AcCcc4XDdrog3g//SGyEM+bb0M4lUQAALRJQ
- Thread-Topic: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: Important change to symbolic link functionality
Well the ABI is not changing. Linked applications will still run
correctly. I don't think there is any need to break all the linked
applications because the format of any new symlinks will not work if you
downgrade again....
Rob
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Warren Young [mailto:warren@etr-usa.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2001 12:44 PM
> To: Corinna Vinschen
> Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT]: Important change to symbolic link
> functionality
>
>
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >
> > The next version of the Cygwin DLL will have the version number
> > 1.3.0 to make unmistakeably clear that there are changes which
> > breaks compatibility with older versions in a more serious
> > manner than before.
>
> Will the DLL name change to, say, cygwin2.dll? There is a serious
> problem with the DLL name "cygwin1.dll" going clear back to
> the beta 18
> days, IIRC. Whenever binary compatibility gets broken, the DLL file
> name should change.
>
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