Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 03:48:13 +0700 From: Max Khon <fjoe@samodelkin.net> To: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys mbuf.h src/sys/kern uipc_mbuf.c uipc_syscalls.c src/usr.bin/netstat mbuf.c src/lib/libc/sys sendfile.2 Message-ID: <20040617204813.GA10670@samodelkin.net> In-Reply-To: <20040617184518.GB831@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> References: <200406170008.i5H08NDt085108@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040617173854.GJ61448@elvis.mu.org> <20040617182031.GA8170@samodelkin.net> <20040617184518.GB831@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU>
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Hi, Ken! On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 02:45:18PM -0400, Ken Smith wrote: > > > This will break scripts. > > > > > > Please back out the netstat change. > > > > No problems, but can you tell me which scripts or programs > > has become broken after this change? > > The scripts that are now potentially broken don't necessarily need to > be in the base system. I did not say that I am interested in base system scripts only :) > They could very well be scripts Alfred wrote > and uses himself for his own purposes. Once a branch goes into -STABLE > status we try to not make 'user-visible' changes to it unless they are > bugfixes or do not alter the way something had worked. As Bosko noted the change _adds_ a few lines to netstat -m output. Old output is not altered. Frankly speaking I can't imagine a script that could correctly parse netstat -m output before, but now is broken. /fjoe
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