Revision 4e0065015d3dab1d94ef7cb2b4b1d1fecfa0e926 authored by Andrew Kryczka on 31 March 2017, 06:27:42 UTC, committed by Facebook Github Bot on 31 March 2017, 06:39:14 UTC
Summary:
some fbcode services override it, we need to keep it virtual.

original change: #1756
Closes https://github.com/facebook/rocksdb/pull/2065

Differential Revision: D4808123

Pulled By: ajkr

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