> > Why is this not sufficient? This is how every other shared library > > dependency works. > > I was just under the impression that a stub was the right thing to do > in this case. I am drawing this conclusion from what I have seen in > libc. Consider msync: it returns always returns failure, however, > when this is functionality finally implemented, all application will > magically start taking advantage of it.
Not necessarily. stub functions are ignored by autoconf checks, so programs with compile-time checks don't try to use msync. _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd