From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Mar 18 10:17:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA10971 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 10:17:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from crh.cl.msu.edu (crh.cl.msu.edu [35.8.1.24]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA10819 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 10:16:00 -0800 (PST) Received: (from henrich@localhost) by crh.cl.msu.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id NAA06127; Mon, 18 Mar 1996 13:15:45 -0500 Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 13:15:45 -0500 From: Charles Henrich Message-Id: <199603181815.NAA06127@crh.cl.msu.edu> To: phk@critter.tfs.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CFV: adding phk_malloc to -stable Newsgroups: lists.freebsd.hackers References: <4ijdlv$qg1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #3 (NOV) Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In lists.freebsd.hackers you write: >> > Until you can demonstrate that NOTHING is (more) broken by doing so, >> > >> > I VOTE NO! >> >> Following this reasoning, you will not allow any extension whatsoever >> to the kernel or system libs or other critical parts of the system, >> because you often cannot demonstrate what you ask. >> >> > Stable is supposed to be just that -- stable. You cannot go breaking things >> > that work, even if they work only because of "two wrongs" >I think Richard is getting too defensive here, though his position is >understandable. >I belive that all the code that has been report as broken has been fixed in >both -current and -stable, with the possible exception of the NIS/YP stuff. >The issue is still up in the air, and for it to be decided we need some, >actually: a lot, of reports saying: I'm running phkmalloc in -stable and >it works fine. >So here is again the recipe: > 1. get src/lib/libc/stdlib/malloc.[3c] from -current and stick it > into your -stable source tree. > 2. make world. > 3. beat on it A LOT > 4. report result. >In particular I'd like reports from people running NIS/YP. If Im running 2.1-R, is there any easy way to get your malloc without having to rebuild the OS from source? Drop in a prebuilt libc.a maybe? If someone could give me a tar file with the necessary files I would be more than happy to use it. -Crh -- Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@msu.edu http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich