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From: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>
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Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu>,
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Subject: Re: Upcoming ABI Breakage in RELENG_7
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* Ian FREISLICH <ianf@clue.co.za> wrote:
> ABI breakage that Ken refers to here means that a change required
> to fix a bug cannot be made while maintaining binary compatibility
> with previous versions.  Any program that makes use of (I'm guessing)
> fcntl(2) or flock(2) that runs on 7.0, will not run on >=3D 7.1 without
> being recompiled.

Are you sure? I fcntl(2) and flock(2) will not change. Only some kernel
space bits will.

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