From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jun 18 00:33:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id AAA03603 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 00:33:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA03598 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 00:33:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA03544; Wed, 18 Jun 1997 09:33:10 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay Message-Id: <199706180733.JAA03544@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: Proposed change to struct clockinfo In-Reply-To: <19970615102528.GA34262@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Jun 15, 97 10:25:28 am" To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 09:33:09 +0200 (SAT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > As John Hay wrote: > > > As far as I can tell only 4 other files use the clockinfo structure and > > they will work again after a recompile. They are: > > lib/libc/gmon/gmon.c > > usr.bin/time/time.c > > usr.sbin/kgmon/kgmon.c > > libexec/rpc.rstatd/rstat_proc.c > > > > I would also like to put these in the 2.2 tree after a few days. > > Since you're going to change a file in libc, this would require a > version number update. This is unacceptable for 2.2. Please clarify > in -hackers whether the already bumped minor version number would > suffice (i assume, even though strictly spoken, isn't it an interface > change to an existing library function? -- this would mandate a major > number bump, sigh). > The interface to the library function does not change. The sysctl change and lib/libc/gmon/gmon.c use that, so it will have to be recompiled to work again. So I think the minor version bump that already happened should be enough??? The other programs in the list above use the sysctl direcly and would also have to be recompiled, but I don't think that is a problem??? John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za