[libvirt] libvirt library binary name for linux

arnaud.champion at devatom.fr arnaud.champion at devatom.fr
Tue Oct 19 13:20:26 UTC 2010


Yes I know that it is not good for portability and I plan to remove the use 
of strdup (and libc) by using custom marshaling, I was just making a test.

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From: "Justin Clift" <jclift at redhat.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 19, 2010 3:11 PM
To: "Alejandro Mery" <amery at geeks.cl>
Cc: <arnaud.champion at devatom.fr>; <libvir-list at redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [libvirt] libvirt library binary name for linux

> On 10/20/2010 12:03 AM, Alejandro Mery wrote:
> <snip>
>>> It's a very standard library.  Sometimes it is "libc.so.6", on older
>>> Linux's, it can be "libc.so.5".
>>>
>>> You are generally safe to use it. :)
>>
>> why does he need to know it? It only helps to ruin portability.
>
> Heh.  At a guess, Arnaud is looking like he's in very early stages
> of learning Linux development.  So, he's probably not exactly sure what
> he does or doesn't need to know, and is doing his best with the
> knowledge he has. :)
> 




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