> From: Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams at sun.com> ... > I thought that's exactly what this case proposes: that the final ksh93 > libcmd in Solaris will have 'filters' for the old libcmd's def*() > symbols so that non-ON applications that try to find def*() in > /lib/libcmd.so will transparently find them in libc. > > Because the def*() symbols will be moving to libc you'd think that these > filters would never be needed, and they shouldn't be, but: a) if there's > any non-ON applications that use direct linking to libcmd they would > break without these filters, b) putting these filters there costs > nothing.
As clearly outlined in Eratta in the original submission. - jek3
