Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 14:26:09 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.org>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/stdio findfp.c Message-ID: <p0511170eb9e87e650c88@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20021101180942.Q14336-100000@gamplex.bde.org> References: <20021101180942.Q14336-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
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At 6:28 PM +1100 11/1/02, Bruce Evans wrote: >On Fri, 1 Nov 2002, Peter Jeremy wrote: > > Maybe I missed something but which parts of __sF rely on kernel >> interfaces? You mightn't be able to use yesterdays libc, but you >> should be able to use yesterday's kernel (for a 'yesterday' since >> about September 1999). > >__sF doesn't. It's just more of a nuisance for the kernel and >userland to become incompatible concurrently. E.g., I would need >to recompile applications that referenced __sF externally. Then >the reccompiled versions wouldn't work without a new kernel, since >they use the new sigaction(). What would work is to take a snapshot of current from before the sigaction() change, and make __sF static in that system, and then recompile everything in that environment. Not exactly a fun way to spend a day, but it'd work. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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