From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Oct 9 12: 6:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B3A514DF3 for ; Sat, 9 Oct 1999 12:06:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@scc.nl) Received: from [212.238.132.94] (helo=scones.sup.scc.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 11a1qC-0002sz-00; Sat, 9 Oct 1999 19:07:37 +0000 Received: from scc.nl (scones.sup.scc.nl [192.168.2.4]) by scones.sup.scc.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA40110; Sat, 9 Oct 1999 21:06:17 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marcel@scc.nl) Message-ID: <37FF9229.655566A4@scc.nl> Date: Sat, 09 Oct 1999 21:06:17 +0200 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: SCC vof X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.5 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Rodney W. Grimes" Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: merging current's jail functionality to stable References: <199910091850.LAA52835@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "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 :-) -- Marcel Moolenaar mailto:marcel@scc.nl SCC Internetworking & Databases http://www.scc.nl/ The FreeBSD project mailto:marcel@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message