Re: [RFC] posix: Export posix_spawn_file_actions_{addchdir, addfchdir} (BZ 34437)

Am Donnerstag, 6. August 2026, 04:57:44 Chinesische Normalzeit schrieb Florian Weimer:
> * Bruno Haible:
> 
> > Hi Adhemerval,
> >
> > Thank you for working on this.
> >
> >> it breaks our previous policy of not adding retroactively symbols.
> 
> And therefore this breaks versioned dependencies in most RPM-based
> distributions.

Not being familiar with RPM packaging, would that also be the case if we release
a 2.44.1 version from the 2.44 branch immediately after backporting that commit?

> 
> > Why not version 2.44.1 ? I guess the symbol versioning mechanism must support
> > version numbers of the form <major>.<minor>.<subminor>, because in the past,
> > some symbols were assigned to versions GLIBC_2.3.3 or GLIBC_2.3.4, for
> > instance.
> 
> We still have lots of old symbols like that.  But we don't really know
> how software reacts to new symbols of that structure.
> 
> The gnulib problem occurs only after a rebuild.  An adverse reaction
> to the 2.44.1 symbol structure might happen just after a glibc update,
> with old applications.  Hard to tell beforehand if this is a good
> trade-off.
> 
> A quick 2.45 release might be another option.
> 
> But I'm not quite convinced any of this is necessary.
> 


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