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From: Vijay Gill <vijay.s.gill@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 12:32:19PM +0000
To For users of Fedora Core releases
Subject: Re: Executables of two versions in one package
> > I had seen that but I think that in the final binary there might be a
> > diff set of instructions for diff ver. As 1.9 gets executed from the
> > applications menu by default, I was wondering if its just a simple
> > wrapper for old menu scripts compatibility or some diff set of
> > instructions in the binary itself.
> >
>
> What do you mean by different set of instructions? Of course the final
> binary would be different from the beta copies (because of all the
> bug-fixes gone into it), but that has nothing to do with your problem.
> As you have seen it yourself, the 1.9 version (and 2.0 version also)
> is nothing but a wrapper to call the same binary, and is there for
> compatibility's sake. Stop worrying about this matter.
>
What I mean by diff set of instructions is that, when a binary is
executed , it sometimes is checked how it has been called and as per
needs the code is forked or not. Best example I can give is vim and
vimdiff which are nothing but same binaries but called differently and
therefore internally executed differently.
I am not worrying about anything, what caught my attention was a number
of mails on the list complaining about oo carshing and also no way a guy
could add a certificate to sign a document, so I went on a check
myself. At that moment I found this and became curious.
Anyways, don't bother yourself.
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