From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Nov 29 12: 8:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from pcnet1.pcnet.com (pcnet1.pcnet.com [204.213.232.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D6CC37B401 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 12:08:19 -0800 (PST) Received: (from eischen@localhost) by pcnet1.pcnet.com (8.8.7/PCNet) id OAA01700; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 14:57:51 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 14:57:51 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Eischen To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: Alfred Perlstein , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Modifying FILE to add lock In-Reply-To: <3A255D8A.7F5CFB26@cup.hp.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > Daniel Eischen wrote: > > > > > I have no objection as long as you bump the shared lib version > > > from -stable. This would be a great time to do it. > > > > This would only be in -current (where the library versions have > > already been bumped) and for our new libpthread. > > I agree. We should not MFC this. Library version bumps halfway on a > -stable branch doesn't seem appropriate. Changing structures is not > done, IMO. > > Anyway: In stdio.h I'm told that I should read the warning before > changing the layout of struct __sFILE. There doesn't seem to be a > warning anywhere in the header file, so I figure it must be the long > comment before the struct declaration. The comment doesn't tell me what > happens if I change the layout. It only tells me what certain fields are > for and doesn't mention _offset at all, even though that field > specifically references the warning. I was also confused by the warning, which is part of the reason I posted this to -arch. -- Dan Eischen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message