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[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/3] libxc: add xc_gnttab_map_grant_ref_notify

On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 15:12 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [PATCH 1/3] libxc: add 
> xc_gnttab_map_grant_ref_notify"):
> > Not specifically to do with this patch but I wonder if we should try and
> > figure a way to version these shared libraries somehow, otherwise
> > changes like this lead to segfault at best and unexpected non-crashing
> > behaviour at worst (for out of tree backends that is).
> 
> Our approach is to change the library major number at some point
> between releases.  People using the development tree can expect
> instability.

These are "plugins" so they don't have an SONAME. Perhaps they should,
but I'm not sure what would check it when opening with dlopen() or how
one goes about doing it manually.

Ian.


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