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Date:      Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:21:55 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-other@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r194744 - in stable/4/lib/libc: . gen
Message-ID:  <200906231621.56531.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <4A412EEE.1030503@elischer.org>
References:  <200906231744.n5NHit0f084841@svn.freebsd.org> <200906231518.37803.jhb@freebsd.org> <4A412EEE.1030503@elischer.org>

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On Tuesday 23 June 2009 3:37:18 pm Julian Elischer wrote:
> John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Tuesday 23 June 2009 2:13:48 pm Brian Somers wrote:
> >> On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:44:55 +0000 (UTC), John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> 
wrote:
> >>> Author: jhb
> >>> Date: Tue Jun 23 17:44:55 2009
> >>> New Revision: 194744
> >>> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/194744
> >>>
> >>> Log:
> >>>   MF7: If the running kernel has support for shm_open() and shm_unlink() 
as
> >>>   system calls (i.e. 8.0+), then invoke the system calls instead of 
using
> >>>   open/fcntl/unlink.
> >>>
> >>> Modified:
> >>>   stable/4/lib/libc/   (props changed)
> >>>   stable/4/lib/libc/gen/posixshm.c
> >> In preparation for the 4.12 release? ;^1
> > 
> > I expect there will be several companies running 4.x binaries under 8.x
> > kernels actually.  There are ones doing it under 7.x now.
> 
> this is going to break my 1.0 compatibility right?

No, not at all.  1.0 binaries do not use libc.so.4.

-- 
John Baldwin



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