From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 23 17:17:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA02469 for current-outgoing; Wed, 23 Apr 1997 17:17:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cais.cais.com (root@cais.com [199.0.216.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA02464 for ; Wed, 23 Apr 1997 17:17:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from earth.mat.net (root@earth.mat.net [205.252.122.1]) by cais.cais.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA05185; Wed, 23 Apr 1997 20:17:25 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Journey2.mat.net (journey2.mat.net [205.252.122.116]) by earth.mat.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA12840; Wed, 23 Apr 1997 20:17:23 -0400 Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 20:16:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey To: "John S. Dyson" cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: You will need to recompile your libc and apps!!! In-Reply-To: <199704160401.XAA03609@dyson.iquest.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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) ? ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------