Symbols missing from global map?

Ulrich Drepper drepper@cygnus.com
Wed Dec 16 07:53:00 GMT 1998


Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au> writes:

> >Fix:
>         Adding __dup, __pipe, __waitpid etc. to build/libc.map makes
>         them visible again.  I am guessing here, this may be the wrong
>         fix.

Yes, it's very wrong.  Why should these symbols have a leading
underscore if not to show they are *INTERNAL* symbols?  One must not
use them.

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