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Subject: Re: cygwin 3.6.0 vs. libbsd 0.11.7-3: -lbsd breaks setproctitle()
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From: Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
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On Feb 19 14:40, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> On Feb 19 14:25, Christian Franke via Cygwin wrote:
> > Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> > > So I think we rather shouldn't supply the libbsd version of
> > > setproctitle_init/setproctitle anymore, as soon as cygwin 3.6.0 is
> > > released.
> > > 
> > > What do you think?
> > 
> > Makes sense. But then existing programs already using the functions from
> > cygbsd-0.dll would no longer start. Perhaps keep the symbols in the DLL only
> > for some time?
> 
> Sure!  The new version will just disable the header definitions but
> still export the symbols for backward compat.

I just realized that this isn't sufficient.  The link lib libbsd.dll.a
must not export the symbol either.


Corinna

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