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Date:      Wed, 9 Mar 2005 00:39:55 -0500
From:      Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@freebsd.org>
To:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@portaone.com>
Cc:        cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/compat/linux linux_socket.c
Message-ID:  <20050309053955.GB993@green.homeunix.org>
In-Reply-To: <422E3EC1.4050402@portaone.com>
References:  <200503070726.j277Qhp5059059@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050308012939.GP11079@elvis.mu.org> <422DCF52.6080109@portaone.com> <20050308210414.GU11079@elvis.mu.org> <20050308232209.GX11079@elvis.mu.org> <422E3EC1.4050402@portaone.com>

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On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 02:09:37AM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> Looks fine, though it's hard for me to comment about adding yet another 
> flag that not present in standards. However, in my pretty 
> unauthoritative opinion, since Linux has it, while many people and ISVs 
> out there use it as a sort of reference when developing  free software, 
> it will probably make sense to support it as well, especially 
> considering that it's pretty easy to do.
> 
> In any case, since it's definitelty an API/ABI change (programs that use 
> MSG_NOSIGNAL won't compile on older systems, while binary programs that 
> use it may not work correctly on older systems) it also warrants 
> __FreeBSD_version bump and proper documentation in the Porter's 
> Handbook. Also the ABI argument probably puts MFC out of question.
> 
> Thanks!

Do you need to bump it when #ifdef can already serve that purpose?

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