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Re: termcap bug on Linux

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From: Clint Adams <clint@xxxxxxx>
To: Andrej Borsenkow <Andrej.Borsenkow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: termcap bug on Linux
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 16:12:04 -0400
Cc: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, ZSH Workers Mailing List <zsh-workers@xxxxxxxxxx>
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> Yes.

I don't know if I ever received 13988, but I don't think I ever read it.

AB> In such cases I always ask myself - what happens, if a program is linked
AB> against dynamic library? Is it possible to silently exchange 4.2 version
AB> against 5.2 version? That would definitely break a lot of things.

On a sane system the soname should reflect the major number.  So
zsh linked against /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5 would not run on
a system with only /usr/lib/libncurses.so.4.

References:
- termcap bug on Linux
  - From: Andrej Borsenkow
- Re: termcap bug on Linux
  - From: Bart Schaefer
- Re: termcap bug on Linux
  - From: Andrej Borsenkow

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