Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 08:15:49 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, (Eivind Eklund) <eivind@FreeBSD.org>, "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/camcontrol camcontrol.8 camcontrol.c sr Message-ID: <XFMail.990510081549.jobaldwi@vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <199905100528.XAA51486@harmony.village.org>
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On 10-May-99 Warner Losh wrote: > In message <199905100516.XAA74004@panzer.plutotech.com> "Kenneth D. Merry" > writes: >: I think the reasons are certainly good, although I'm not sure stuff like >: this should really go to -announce. I think that bugging people on >: -announce should generally be for for big things like release announcements >: and such, but who am I to say what it's for? > > -announce is a moderated list. If you send noise to it, the moderator > will let you know. If there is doubt, I'd tend to send it to him with > a note asking if it is appropriate. If it isn't, he can suggest the > proper place for the information (RELEASE NOTES, UPDATING, etc). > >: Just out of curiosity, will a ps binary from 2.2 work on 2.2.8? (I really >: don't know the answer, but if it won't, my guess is lsof would be broken as >: well.) > > Yes. At least I know that I've booted a 2.2.8 kernel on a system that > had 2.2.2R installed on it. dmesg and ps worked for me. I had less > luck in the 2.0 series of releases... In my experience, a 2.2.6 dmesg did not work with a 2.2.7 kernel, instead it complained about a non-matching magic value. > Warner --- John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> -- http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/ PGP Key: http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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