openoffice 1.0.1 vs glibc cvs

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 10:43:08AM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Kevin B. Hendricks wrote:
> 
> > Why remove the functionality of being able to make glibc calls that avoid 
> > the pthread cancellation wrappers *before* the new pthreads you are 
> > designing is actually put into general use
> 
> Using internal symbols and the availability of the new thread code have
> absolutely nothing in common.  Internal symbols are internal symbols,
> before or after the introduction of the new thread code and internal
> symbols can change or go away.  It's that simple.

To show that internal exported symbol removal is not just theoretical
possibility, e.g. from ld.so something like 25 GLIBC_PRIVATE symbols
have been removed during last few months.

	Jakub