From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Nov 7 12: 2:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 889B737B401 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 12:02:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CCE443E77 for ; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 12:02:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@elvis.mu.org) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id 01D4DAE340; Thu, 7 Nov 2002 12:02:49 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2002 12:02:49 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: "M. Warner Losh" Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Simple patch to make __sF suck less on -stable Message-ID: <20021107200249.GC39178@elvis.mu.org> References: <20021107.115936.40770874.imp@bsdimp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021107.115936.40770874.imp@bsdimp.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * M. Warner Losh [021107 11:00] wrote: > http://people.freebsd.org/~imp/sf-patch > > This causes stable to generate __std{in,out,err}p references in > preference to __sF. If you rebuild with this patch, then you'll not > have __sF references in your libraries. This will allow new us to > share 4.x and 5.x libraries w/o the need for a gnarly version bump of > everything, provided we don't change the sizeof FILE in a released > version before 6.0. The whole idea was to allow struct file to change in 5.0. :( -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message