From owner-freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 31 11:38:47 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: standards@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FFD316A41C; Tue, 31 May 2005 11:38:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nectar@FreeBSD.org) Received: from gw.celabo.org (gw.celabo.org [208.42.49.153]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 395F343D1D; Tue, 31 May 2005 11:38:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nectar@FreeBSD.org) Received: from lum.celabo.org (lum.celabo.org [10.0.1.107]) by gw.celabo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F10E3E634D; Tue, 31 May 2005 06:38:46 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lum.celabo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79674FF680; Tue, 31 May 2005 06:38:44 -0500 (CDT) In-Reply-To: References: <200505041529.36826.peter@wemm.org> <20050509.104234.71141880.imp@bsdimp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v730) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Jacques Vidrine Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 06:38:41 -0500 To: Hajimu UMEMOTO X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.730) Cc: standards@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org, des@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [CFR] correct type of addrinfo.ai_addrlen and netent.n_net X-BeenThere: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Standards compliance List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 11:38:47 -0000 On May 27, 2005, at 1:30 PM, Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote: > Hi, >>>>>> On Mon, 09 May 2005 10:42:34 -0600 (MDT) >>>>>> Warner Losh said: >> Are you suggest when to remove padding? Since the major of libc was >> bumped already in 6-CURRENT, it may better to wait 7-CURRENT. > > imp> We've generally not worried compatibility in the 'rough and > tumble' > imp> world of FreeBSD current. So unless there's a problem in the > upgrade > imp> path, I think that we safely omit them. > > I'll commit the attached change to nuke padding. It will break ABI > compatibility on 64 bit arch. So, I'm planning bumping major of > affected shlibs. Please review it. It isn't clear to me that bumping the libraries' version number in - CURRENT is necessary, but I have no objection, either. Cheers, -- Jacques A Vidrine / NTT/Verio nectar@celabo.org / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@freebsd.org