linux-kernel - Re: RSDL v0.31

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Date:	Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:29:38 -0700
From:	Nicholas Miell <nmiell@...cast.net>
To:	William Lee Irwin III <wli@...omorphy.com>
Cc:	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>, Con Kolivas <kernel@...ivas.org>,
	ck@....kolivas.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Al Boldi <a1426z@...ab.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RSDL v0.31

On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 00:25 -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 08:11:57AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > On a side note, I wonder how long it's going to take to fix all the
> > X/client combinations out there.
> 
> AIUI X's clients largely access it via libraries X ships, so the X
> update will sweep the vast majority of them in one shot. You'll have
> to either run the clients from remote hosts with downrev libraries or
> have downrev libraries around (e.g. in chroots) for clients to link to
> for the clients not to cooperate.
> 

The changes will probably be entirely server-side anyway, so stray
ancient libraries won't be a problem.

-- 
Nicholas Miell <nmiell@...cast.net>

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