[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/3] libxc: add xc_gnttab_map_grant_ref_notify

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Campbell writes ("Re: [PATCH 1/3] libxc: add 
xc_gnttab_map_grant_ref_notify"):
> Not specifically to do with this patch but I wonder if we should try and
> figure a way to version these shared libraries somehow, otherwise
> changes like this lead to segfault at best and unexpected non-crashing
> behaviour at worst (for out of tree backends that is).

Our approach is to change the library major number at some point
between releases.  People using the development tree can expect
instability.

> Something as simple as checksumming the xenctrlosdep.h header and
> including the value in the .so to be checked at load time would do the
> trick.

Urgh.

Ian.

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