I don't actually advocate point 7.
I only mentioned it because someone may wish to downgrade libc for the
same reason they may need to downgrade kernel. Namely that the new one
doesn't work properly for a while.
Isn't it possible to make link-time `lchown (new libc)' bind to run-time
`chown (old version)' when linking with the new libc? I was thinking
that maybe in new libc itself, `chown' would have the effect of `lchown'
and vice versa, with versioning used to shuffle them at link time.
Perhaps also with header file declarations. (Hmm. That _is_ a bad idea
isn't it). Hence confusion if viewed in the debugger :-).
-- Jamie
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