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* Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@portaone.com> [050308 16:10] wrote:
> Looks fine, though it's hard for me to comment about adding yet another 
> flag that not present in standards. However, in my pretty 
> unauthoritative opinion, since Linux has it, while many people and ISVs 
> out there use it as a sort of reference when developing  free software, 
> it will probably make sense to support it as well, especially 
> considering that it's pretty easy to do.
> 
> In any case, since it's definitelty an API/ABI change (programs that use 
> MSG_NOSIGNAL won't compile on older systems, while binary programs that 
> use it may not work correctly on older systems) it also warrants 
> __FreeBSD_version bump and proper documentation in the Porter's 
> Handbook. Also the ABI argument probably puts MFC out of question.

Sorry, so how could it break ABI?  It's just an additional flag...

-Alfred