From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 12 17:38:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B36537B503 for ; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:38:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.2/8.11.1) id f1D1c5v09045; Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:38:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:38:05 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Warner Losh Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Patch for FILE problems (was Re: -CURRENT is bad for me...) Message-ID: <20010212173805.P3038@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200102130120.f1D1KpU56194@mobile.wemm.org> <200102130131.f1D1VrW33790@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200102130131.f1D1VrW33790@harmony.village.org>; from imp@harmony.village.org on Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 06:31:53PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 06:31:53PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <200102130120.f1D1KpU56194@mobile.wemm.org> Peter Wemm writes: > : If we had taken -current to 500, we could go to 501, 502, etc as > : required to stop killing our developers, and prior to entering 5.0-BETA we > : go back to the next sequentially available major number (be it 5, or 6 > : if RELENG_4 bumps again). > > I've had problems in the past going backwards on major versions of > shared libaries. The major problem is that if I have binaries that > refer to libc.so.503, then when the major number is reverted back to > 5, it is a nop because ld will use libc.so.503 for new binaries. In the a.out days, yes. Are you sure you've seen this in the ELF days? > What's wrong with shipping with say libc.so.505 in 5.0 and then say > libc.so.645 in 6.0? HACK. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message