Re: [PATCH] part type interface

[Thomas Bushnell, BSG]

Neal H Walfield <neal@cs.uml.edu> writes:

> > Why is this not sufficient?  This is how every other shared library
> > dependency works.
> 
> I was just under the impression that a stub was the right thing to do
> in this case.  I am drawing this conclusion from what I have seen in
> libc.  Consider msync: it returns always returns failure, however,
> when this is functionality finally implemented, all application will
> magically start taking advantage of it.

I think libc is a very special case, in part because of the way
standards work.  But Roland can say more about that.