On Fri, 17 Dec 1999 17:30:07 -0500 
 "Michael C. Richardson" <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca> wrote:

 >   If thread friendly libc isn't enough to justify bumping a major
 > library version, then what else is? It sounds like we really need to do some
 > housekeeping here.

It's certainly not worth breaking backwards compatbility over... you screw
every shared library that *calls* libc, requiring their major numbers to
be bumped, too.

 >   I think it would be worth it. 

You volunteering to fix all of the lossage that will result?

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>