Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 08:10:45 +0800 From: David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org> To: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> Cc: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, cvs-src@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys signal.h Message-ID: <43977A05.5050608@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.43.0512071714280.25588-100000@sea.ntplx.net> References: <Pine.GSO.4.43.0512071714280.25588-100000@sea.ntplx.net>
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Daniel Eischen wrote: >On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Scott Long wrote: > > > >>John Baldwin wrote: >> >> >>>Even 6.x programs that use aio would be affected if 4.x ones were affected. I >>>think aio is the only thing 6.x and earlier could be using though. >>> >>> >>> >>So will there be some sort of compatibility shims? I bet that there >>will still be a lot of 4.x binaries being run on 7.0 systems in the >>future, just like 2.2.8 binaries were being run for years after 3.x and >>4.x came out. >> >> > >Yeah, and we can implement the shims in versioned libraries ;-) > ><ducks and runs> > > > At least, util now, there is no binary compatible problem. but I would like we will implement SIGEV_THREAD before 7.0, this is why I requested you to implement it ASAP because you claimed you will do it, so I just sit back. Current only libthr implemented SIGEV_THERAD for timer, I can implement it for mqueue, but aio syscall interface sucks, need more time for it. David Xu
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