[csw-maintainers] Proposal: direct binding for all the opencsw software stack

[Ben Walton]

Excerpts from Yann Rouillard's message of Tue Aug 07 16:43:08 -0400 2012:

Hi Yann,

> Linux uses symbol versioning to solve this problem but in the
> Solaris world, even if symbol versioning does exist, that is not the
> solution to this problem and it turns that a solaris linker feature
> called direct binding is a right approach (see the thread
> http://lists.opencsw.org/pipermail/maintainers/2012-July/017064.html
> and the explanation in oracle manual:
> http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19963-01/html/819-0690/aehzq.html ).

I need to read about this, but it sounds like it might be a good
approach.

Thanks
-Ben
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