[HDFS-3742] libhdfs symbol visibility issues

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.2-alpha
• Fix Version/s: 2.7.0
• Assignee: Colin McCabe
• Reporter: Colin McCabe
• Created: 30/Jul/12 23:43
• Updated: 30/Jun/15 07:25
• Resolved: 09/Mar/15 22:20

Description

libhdfs symbols should be hidden unless they're part of the API. If we don't hide symbols, they could conflict with symbols in a library user's program.

This can be accomplished with _attribute_((visibility)) like this:

void __attribute__((visibility("hidden"))) bar(int i);

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: HDFS-7879 hdfs.dll does not export functions of the public libhdfs API
• relates to: HDFS-3579 libhdfs: fix exception handling
• relates to: HDFS-3757 libhdfs: improve native stack traces