From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 6 1: 1:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-158.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E6B037B719 for ; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 01:01:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 36CD666ED3; Tue, 6 Mar 2001 01:01:38 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 01:01:38 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Carson Gaspar Cc: Kris Kennaway , FreeBSD-stable Subject: Re: wchan kqread Message-ID: <20010306010138.B92634@mollari.cthul.hu> References: <20010303163114.B51808@mollari.cthul.hu> <44748046.983799673@[10.10.1.2]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="24zk1gE8NUlDmwG9" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <44748046.983799673@[10.10.1.2]>; from carson@taltos.org on Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 01:41:13PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --24zk1gE8NUlDmwG9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 01:41:13PM -0800, Carson Gaspar wrote: > > This has never been the case; the main culprits are things like top > > and ps which rely (relied - it's fixed in -current) on struct proc > > which changes size fairly regularly, but there are others. We're > > trying to move away from that by more sensible exporting of data > > structures, but this is the way it's always been. >=20 > So why the !@#$%$%^ is this stuff changing in -STABLE? One would _hope_= =20 > that -STABLE was for bug-fixes, not for gratuitous feature changes. If I= =20 > wanted my APIs to change daily, I'd run -CURRENT. You're in error of what -STABLE is. Refresh your memory by consulting the relevant handbook chapter. Kris --24zk1gE8NUlDmwG9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6pKdxWry0BWjoQKURAqIuAKCTPk7o1BF2UUpN1zzOk4avhHKbZACgwC0i 9w/Ni6AkuZB0RfnqRfXIZBw= =Hbuu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --24zk1gE8NUlDmwG9-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message