From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 20 09:31:00 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id JAA27570 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 09:31:00 -0700 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA27539 for ; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 09:30:25 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA23606; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 18:29:47 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id SAA01721; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 18:29:47 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id HAA14510; Tue, 20 Jun 1995 07:39:08 +0200 From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199506200539.HAA14510@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: bringing up freebsd 2.0.5 To: rpt@miles.sso.loral.com (Richard Toren) Date: Tue, 20 Jun 1995 07:39:07 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Richard Toren" at Jun 19, 95 09:39:36 pm Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1062 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Richard Toren wrote: > [2.0R binaries working under 2.0.5R] > 3? Will programs that look into the kernel (xcpustate, xmeter, lsof, Those are usually the only programs potentially affected. You can never know which internal kernel structure might change between releases, hence no forecast for 2.1R. :-) (Though, given the current policy of only selected bug fixes being accepted for 2.1, it's unlikely that 2.0.5 and 2.1 will differ.) The (known) offenders between 2.0 and 2.0.5 are all routing binaries. True userland programs will always continue to run; the worst they need is another set of shared libraries (the compatXXX distributions). And, of course (alwost no longer worth to mention), confi(8) is heavily dependend on the kernel tree. It's usually changed about 5 times or more between major releases, so you have to make sure that you're config'ing your kernel with the right config binary. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)