Re: Multi-archive Contexts: Some PCP Tools Lost in Time

[Dave Brolley <brolley@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 02/16/2016 02:05 PM, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> brolley wrote:
>
> > [...]  The problem lies with older versions of these tools
> > attempting to work with a multi-archive enabled libpcp. [...]
> It may not be worth overthinking this particular configuration.  We
> can use symbol versioning tricks.
>
> For exmaple, we can disable the problematic time-index-accessing
> functions entirely.  Or retain a pmNewContext implementation shim that
> rejects multi-archives / directory names but otherwise passes things
> through.
The problem is that these tools are not using such functions. They are 
pawing around in the data structures directly.
Dave