From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 10 19:31:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA03555 for current-outgoing; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 19:31:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from nomis.simon-shapiro.org ([206.190.143.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id TAA03524 for ; Sat, 10 Jan 1998 19:31:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shimon@nomis.Simon-Shapiro.ORG) Received: (qmail 4646 invoked by uid 1000); 10 Jan 1998 22:03:50 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3-alpha-010198 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199801101623.KAA07209@nash.pr.mcs.net> Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 14:03:50 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Organization: The Simon Shapiro Foundation From: Simon Shapiro To: Alex Nash Subject: Re: Making world today Cc: kong@kkk.ml.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG, aryder@bestweb.net, asami@cs.berkeley.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On 10-Jan-98 Alex Nash wrote: > On 10 Jan, Satoshi Asami wrote: >> * From: Simon Shapiro >> >> * Classic case of deadlocked update. This build depends on new headers >> which >> * are only installed after a successful build which installs the >> headers >> * needed for a successfull build. There are numerous such failures. I >> postd >> >> That is not supposed to happen. Which file are you talking about, and >> when is it installed vs. when is it needed? > > If we're referring to the libalias breakage, the story is as follows: > on the 7th, I modified ipfw to use 64-bit packet and byte counters. > This required an interface change, and unfortunately, required moving > two elements of the structure into a union so that we could fit under > the 108 byte setsockopt() limit. On the 9th, eivind committed libalias > changes which used the old interface. This was just unfortunate timing. Seems that way. Maybe we should start thinking about how to eliminate these slips. We are gaining a reputation lately. ---------- Sincerely Yours, Simon Shapiro Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG Voice: 503.799.2313