From owner-cvs-all Fri Nov 1 11:26:50 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E9C737B401; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 11:26:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4451043E75; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 11:26:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id gA1JQA0b095588; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 14:26:11 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20021101180942.Q14336-100000@gamplex.bde.org> References: <20021101180942.Q14336-100000@gamplex.bde.org> Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 14:26:09 -0500 To: Bruce Evans , Peter Jeremy From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/stdio findfp.c Cc: Alfred Perlstein , Peter Wemm , , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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