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Date:      Mon, 25 Aug 2025 11:53:14 -0700
From:      Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org>
To:        Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: August 2025 stabilization week
Message-ID:  <aKyxGl3WsZtHuAbt@cell.glebi.us>
In-Reply-To: <56dd78c6-a53a-4c4c-989a-335cc5fed405@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <aKwYB4d6l4ze-yXA@cell.glebi.us> <aKxcwqKqW3ZpA3Po@cell.glebi.us> <56dd78c6-a53a-4c4c-989a-335cc5fed405@FreeBSD.org>

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On Mon, Aug 25, 2025 at 11:09:36AM -0500, Kyle Evans wrote:
K> > 4) The unfortunate coincidence with 3) is ABI breakage in the
K> > setgroups(2)/getgroups(2) syscalls compared to the July stabilization point.
K> > Some packages would dump core.  These packages need to be rebuilt.
K> 
K> This should be mitigated if you have COMPAT_FREEBSD14 enabled?  Old packages would
K> reference the old compat symbol versions in libc, which should use the COMPAT_FREEBSD14
K> variants of setgroups/getgroups.  If you have a pointer to scenarios where that isn't
K> the case, that'd be helpful- old packages should be fine in the GENERIC case.

You are correct. This affects only people who run custom kernels without
COMPAT_FREEBSD14.

-- 
Gleb Smirnoff


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