Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 14:27:38 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@freebsd.org> Cc: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>, re@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shared library version bump? Message-ID: <4470DB4A.6020304@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <ygey7wvioud.wl%ume@mahoroba.org> References: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0605081648270.11616@sea.ntplx.net> <yge1wuzw7zi.wl%ume@mahoroba.org> <Pine.GSO.4.64.0605121342220.9359@sea.ntplx.net> <ygey7x5vh2q.wl%ume@mahoroba.org> <ygey7wvioud.wl%ume@mahoroba.org>
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Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote:
>Hi,
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>>>>>>On Sun, 14 May 2006 04:51:41 +0900
>>>>>>Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@freebsd.org> said:
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>>>>>>On Fri, 12 May 2006 13:44:58 -0400 (EDT)
>>>>>>Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> said:
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>>I wish to fix following things which break ABI backward compatibility
>>when libc version bump:
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>> - gethostbyaddr(3) prototype to conform to POSIX.
>> - Fix wrong usage of EAI_MEMORY in getnameinfo(). It needs to
>> return EAI_OVERFLOW.
>> - Update res_update() and friends to BIND9's one.
>> - Nuke some compatibility crufts for 6.X and earlier.
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>deischen> Go ahead. Just realize though, that after 7.0 is released
>deischen> you will have to support any ABI from then on without version
>deischen> bumps (meaning, you have to keep shims for any old 7.0+ ABIs
>deischen> in libc).
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>ume> Okay, I'll do.
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I assume htat EVENTUALLY we will bump numbers again when something
sufficiently
big needs to be done to the ABI.
>Done.
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>Sincerely,
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>--
>Hajimu UMEMOTO @ Internet Mutual Aid Society Yokohama, Japan
>ume@mahoroba.org ume@{,jp.}FreeBSD.org
>http://www.imasy.org/~ume/
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