May libc-6 be stablized and public quickly!
(and may linux share space with glibc-2.0.* properly!)
[it doesn't as of 2.1.43 - it does with 2.0.30.. AFAIK <sigh>]
On 10 Jul 1997, Frohwalt Egerer wrote:
> psj@cgmlarson.com (Patrick St. Jean) writes:
>
> [ SCSI 'first come first served' numbering ]
>
> - The kernel dev_t currently is too small to allow for this scheme.
> - With libc 5 dev_t can't be enlarged without breaking _all_ binaries.
> - libc6/glibc2 allows for enlarging the kernel dev_t without breaking
> binaries.
>
> => You'll probably see a larger dev_t and a saner SCSI numbering
> scheme, when libc6 is in the mainstream.