Date: Thu, 5 Jan 1995 07:56:32 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, j@uriah.sax.de Subject: Re: Never mind on the "mcopy busy" Message-ID: <199501042056.HAA04453@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>I've noticed that FreeBSD 2's flock() is binary incompatible with >FreeBSD 1.1.5's. My older copy of elm refuses to work now under 2.0, >i get an `flock: invalid argument'. `struct flock' starts with an off_t, so the struct is totally incompatible with the 1.1.5 version. >I hope it isn't intention for FreeBSD 2 to be binary incompatible to >its ancestors? :-/ The change of `struct stat' due to fatter off_t's and other features is handled by having completely new syscalls for stat, fstat and lstat. Apparently the problem with struct flock was overlooked. Bruce
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