Re: Are the pthread "compatibility" copies of symbols in libc still necessary?

[Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>]

On 03/16/2018 06:38 PM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:

> > It does:
> >
> > “
> > A fatal error shall be triggered when no matching definition can be
> > found in the object whose name is the one referenced by the vn_name
> > element in the Elfxx_Verneed entry.
> > ”

> > > My conclusion is this:
> > >
> > > * We can remove fork@GLIBC_2.2.5 from libpthread.so, the shared object doesn't
> > >     encode it as being needed and won't cause a failure per the rules that
> > >     require the referenced shared object to have the versioned symbol that was
> > >     bound at static link time.
> >
> > I already tried a while bug and failed because the system does not
> > boot anymore after that, due to the check mentioned above.  I don't
> > think the code has changed since then.
>
> Do you know what failed? I should try this.

I got the fatal error required by the specification.

Florian