From owner-freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 9 16:06:31 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0378E16A4E8; Mon, 9 May 2005 16:06:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from cheer.mahoroba.org (gw4.mahoroba.org [218.45.22.175]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39D6F43D93; Mon, 9 May 2005 16:06:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ume@mahoroba.org) Received: from lyrics.mahoroba.org (ume@lyrics.mahoroba.org [IPv6:3ffe:501:185b:8010:280:88ff:fe03:4841]) (user=ume mech=CRAM-MD5 bits=0)j49G6Hpr013396 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 10 May 2005 01:06:18 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from ume@mahoroba.org) Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 01:06:16 +0900 Message-ID: From: Hajimu UMEMOTO To: Peter Wemm In-Reply-To: <200505041529.36826.peter@wemm.org> References: <200505041529.36826.peter@wemm.org> User-Agent: xcite1.38> Wanderlust/2.15.1 (Almost Unreal) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.7 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Sanj=F2?=) APEL/10.6 Emacs/22.0.50 (i386-unknown-freebsd5.4) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE X-PGP-Key: http://www.imasy.or.jp/~ume/publickey.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 1F00 0B9E 2164 70FC 6DC5 BF5F 04E9 F086 BF90 71FE Organization: Internet Mutual Aid Society, YOKOHAMA MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Greylist: Sender succeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0b5 (cheer.mahoroba.org [IPv6:3ffe:501:185b:8010::1]); Tue, 10 May 2005 01:06:18 +0900 (JST) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.7 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.2 (2004-11-16) on cheer.mahoroba.org cc: standards@freebsd.org cc: current@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [CFR] correct type of addrinfo.ai_addrlen and netent.n_net X-BeenThere: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Standards compliance List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 16:06:31 -0000 Hi, >>>>> On Wed, 4 May 2005 15:29:36 -0700 >>>>> Peter Wemm said: peter> Like David Schultz said, it would be better to use the machine/endian.h peter> macros to set the padding position. I think so, too, thanks. peter> As far as removing the padding goes, it makes little difference whether peter> you break it now or later. Doing it now will be painful. Doing it peter> before 6.0-REL will be just as painful. Not only is this encoded in peter> libc.so.6, but all applications and shared libraries that have exposure peter> to this also know it. Are you suggest when to remove padding? Since the major of libc was bumped already in 6-CURRENT, it may better to wait 7-CURRENT. Sincerely, -- Hajimu UMEMOTO @ Internet Mutual Aid Society Yokohama, Japan ume@mahoroba.org ume@{,jp.}FreeBSD.org http://www.imasy.org/~ume/