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Date:      Sat, 09 Oct 1999 21:06:17 +0200
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: merging current's jail functionality to stable
Message-ID:  <37FF9229.655566A4@scc.nl>
References:  <199910091850.LAA52835@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>

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"Rodney W. Grimes" wrote:
> 
> > Jacques Vidrine wrote:
> >
> > > These patches change the interface of suser(9).  All uses of
> > > suser in the source tree have been updated, but 3rd-party KLDs,
> > > at least, would be broken by this change.
> > >
> > > As I see it, there are these options:
> > >   = Damn the binary compatibility.  Go ahead and commit it.
> > >     Inform any known vendors about the change and encourage
> > >     them to make the trivial updates needed.
> >
> > This is not an option.
> 
> I disagree, binary compatibility has continuously been broken
> in -stable, why is it now suddenly ``not an option''.  We had
> to redoply 2 times during our attempt to beta test 3.3 due to
> changes in binary compatibility in less than a 14 day period!!

The fact that it has been done before doesn't mean it's ok to do it
again. Given the alternatives Jacques presented, breaking binary
compatibility is totally unnecessary and therefore not an option. IMO,
of course :-)

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