From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 13 13:22:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA25660 for current-outgoing; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 13:22:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA25648 for ; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 13:21:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id WAA03404; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 22:21:36 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id WAA21507; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 22:21:35 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id WAA12735; Wed, 13 Mar 1996 22:05:24 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603132105.WAA12735@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Questions for current hackers.. To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 22:05:24 +0100 (MET) Cc: jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Jake Hamby" at Mar 13, 96 08:41:59 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Jake Hamby wrote: > 1) Why was libc's major version number bumped to 3? Was this to Some function has been dropped from the library (i forgot which one). > incorporate changes to make it thread-safe or for some other reason(s)? > Is it safe to assume that the version won't be bumped again before > 2.2-RELEASE? Yup, that's the policy. The version number will change at moste once between releases. Users of -current have to take care to always use the right shared lib, the major/minor # protection doesn't always work for them. (The VM questions must be left to John or David.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)