Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 14:14:32 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 64btt cvsup? Message-ID: <XFMail.20040226141432.jdp@polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <20040226220817.GA7995@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On 26-Feb-2004 Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 02:02:42PM -0800, John Polstra wrote: >> >> Lots of things can go wrong here. > > Note that there has just been a flag day in 5.2-CURRENT that required > everyone to rebuild everything linked to libc_r (or take libmap > countermeasures). Before that, in 5.1-CURRENT the change to fstatfs() > required everyone to rebuild everything that called that function > (with no workarounds available). > > The impact of this change is hardly unprecedented, and when discussed > here there was strong consensus that we should just take the hit and > do it now before 5.x-STABLE comes along and we lose the justification > for breaking binary compatibility. OK, this wouldn't be the first time I'd been overly cautious. :-} John
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