From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jul 15 9:57: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from guru.phone.net (guru.phone.net [209.157.82.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B09D214EDB for ; Thu, 15 Jul 1999 09:56:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@phone.net) Received: (qmail 30133 invoked by uid 100); 15 Jul 1999 16:56:50 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 15 Jul 1999 16:56:50 -0000 Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 09:56:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Meyer To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Thomas Gellekum , Daniel Eischen , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, kip@lyris.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: seg fault in mutex_queue_enq In-Reply-To: <1985.932056614@zippy.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: :->> Jordan should have to say something about this. AFAIR, bumps are :->> allowed but only by one between releases. We will have to provide :->> libc_r.so.3 in /usr/lib/compat/compat3x, though (we'll have to do this :->> anyway by the time 4.x is released). :-> :->I'd prefer not to bump it... John Birrell and I are already not :->entirely in agreement that the change required a version bump at :->all. It didn't change any interfaces. Which failure is better: An error that you don't have a recent enough version of the library, or one that the routine poll() can't be found at run time?