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Date:      Mon, 12 Feb 2001 16:20:04 -0800
From:      Alex Zepeda <jazepeda@pacbell.net>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: -CURRENT is bad for me...
Message-ID:  <20010212162004.A9106@zippy.mybox.zip>
In-Reply-To: <200102122220.f1CMKUm01666@mass.dis.org>; from msmith@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 02:20:30PM -0800
References:  <Pine.SUN.3.91.1010212170101.11435B-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com> <200102122220.f1CMKUm01666@mass.dis.org>

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On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 02:20:30PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote:

> You can do better than this.  Put the lock in FILE, and define a new 
> structure FILE_old, which has the same size/layout as the old FILE 
> structure.

How is this more acceptable than bumping the major number?  Are they
really so precious that they can only be incremented once for a release
cycle?  Seems to me that a new major number is far cleaner than a gross hack.

- alex


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