Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:25:09 -0800 From: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org> To: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Andre Oppermann <andre@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: svn: head/sys/netinet Message-ID: <4EFE5665.1070902@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4EFE5481.6050707@FreeBSD.org> References: <201110071343.p97Dh1c9013228@svn.freebsd.org> <4EFE0FC1.6070909@FreeBSD.org> <20111230200249.GF12721@FreeBSD.org> <4EFE5481.6050707@FreeBSD.org>
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On 12/30/2011 4:17 PM, Maxim Sobolev wrote: >> M> Won't this break whole lot of third-party software, which expects >> M> FreeBSD to be slightly different in this regards? Just curious. >> >> Yes it does. And until FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE there is time to fix >> this software (at least in ports). >> >> The MFC to stable/9 of r226105 was back out. > > Well, I am just curious how critical it is to get it resolved and is > there any way to avoid ABI breakage. Software compiled for 9.x won't run > on 10.x even when fitted with the proper compat libs, as far as I can > tell and not all software can be easily recompiled. P.S. It should be trivial to put some COMPAT_8/COMPAT_9 shims based on the version of the ELF image (i.e. detect if the binary is < than FreeBSD 10. -Maxim
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