From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 29 11: 5:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEFF715954 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 11:05:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p25-dn02kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [210.163.200.122]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with ESMTP id DAA09854; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 03:04:48 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <37F25324.FC471EEC@newsguy.com> Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1999 02:57:56 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: sigset_t changes committed References: <37F23064.98EEBC67@scc.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > These libraries either a) have one of the modified structures > visible in the interface, or b) use sigset_t internally and > may cause breakage if new binaries are used against libraries > that don't have the sigset_t change. This not an immediate > issue, but will be as soon as applications start using the > new range to its fullest. Without really wanting to get into this discussion, the version bumps if an old binary cannot use a new library, not the other way around. Alas, this is all I'll be saying. Interested parties can refer to the recent discussion+flame war on the subject. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org Rule 69: Do unto other's code as you'd have it do unto yours To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message