Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 18:59:42 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, Munish Chopra <chopra@soulwax.net>, kirk@mckusick.com Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS-UP new statfs structure Message-ID: <p0600200fbbdb1c91ed0e@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1031114172113.24606C-100000@fledge.watson.org> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1031114172113.24606C-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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At 5:26 PM -0500 11/14/03, Robert Watson wrote: > >As soon as you recompile libc, applications expecting the old >statfs() ABI get the new statfs(), and depending on where their >smaller struct statfs is located, may stomp on memory they're >using for something else (like critical data structures). But if they are re-compiled, won't they be re-compiled with the newer struct statfs? (and thus be the correct size) -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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