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Date:      Wed, 23 Apr 1997 20:16:43 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net>
To:        "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: You will need to recompile your libc and apps!!!
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.970423201446.12853A-100000@Journey2.mat.net>
In-Reply-To: <199704160401.XAA03609@dyson.iquest.net>

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On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, John S. Dyson wrote:

> 
> 
> There is a serious bug in popen that has gone undetected until now.  I
> have just committed a fix that makes the shared address space vfork
> problem go away (which was due to the popen boo-boo.)  I will not
> be committing the fix to vfork until people have a chance to recompile
> their libc and re-link their apps with the corrected library.

I'm sorry, but I had to do a project, and I've been ignoring mail a 
little while.  I am back now, and I see this ...

Can I handle this by doing a make world first, relinking all my apps 
(from ports I guess this means, since the make world will handle the base 
system) and then installing a new kernel (in that order) ?

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