Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:15:44 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Randall Stewart <rrs@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern uipc_socket.c src/sys/sys protosw.h socket.h Message-ID: <20080414210941.U72408@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <200804141806.m3EI64St043794@repoman.freebsd.org> References: <200804141806.m3EI64St043794@repoman.freebsd.org>
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On Mon, 14 Apr 2008, Randall Stewart wrote: > Add pru_flush routine so a transport can > flush itself during Shutdown > > MFC after: 1 week I'm not sure this is an MFCable change because: (a) The new function pointer is inserted in the middle of the data protosw data structure, changing the interpretation of existing compiled protosw structures. (b) Even if they were at the end of the structure, existing compiled protocols might well have garbage (or un-related data) beyond the end of the data structure, leading to a non-NULL pointer that is not a pointer to a flush function. Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge
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