Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 16:41:27 -0600 (CST) From: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> To: Maxime Henrion <mux@freebsd.org> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_exec.c Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0403121637090.30121-100000@pancho> In-Reply-To: <20040312223322.GF35475@elvis.mu.org>
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> I believe that what Ruslan wanted to say is that since software that > will break after this commit are already broken, we can just patch the > application via the port and have it working whatever version of FreeBSD > you're running. There is also the issue of using the FreeBSD version bump as a "marker", so that when FAQs start arriving about why "something has changed", you can point the questioner to the version bump instead of "oh, there was some change to something in the kernel somewhere around that time". Now, obviously, there's no point in bumping the revision every time someone commits a file -- but in this case, where one might potentially suspect "unintended consequences", I'd rather see the project err on the side of having too many bumps rather than too few. IMHO, YMMV, etc. mcl
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