From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 12 17:12: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mobile.wemm.org (c1315225-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [65.0.135.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93D7E37B65D for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:12:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mobile.wemm.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f1D1BpU56116; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:11:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <200102130111.f1D1BpU56116@mobile.wemm.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Warner Losh Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Daniel Eischen , John Indra , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Patch for FILE problems (was Re: -CURRENT is bad for me...) In-Reply-To: <200102130052.f1D0qFW33330@harmony.village.org> Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:11:50 -0800 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Warner Losh wrote: > In message Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: > : Warner Losh writes: > : > I'd rather see this patch, or something similar, than bump the major > : > version again. We can phase in a better way to obviate the need to do > : > this in the future. > : > : Brian Feldman, Peter Wemm, David O'Brien and myself have been > : discussing possible solutions on IRC for the past two hours. Peter > : will likely commit a patch sometime soon. > > If there's something better than Daniel's solution that doesn't > require a major bump and is compatible with the old libc.so.5 api, > then I'm all for that. I'd love to test it out as well if there's any > desire for that. Do you really want to carry the baggage for the entire 5.0-RELEASE and 5-STABLE branch? Just because of a pedantic policy point? Personally, I think that sucks. :-( Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message