Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 21:05:10 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Tor.Egge@fast.no, bde@zeta.org.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: installworld gotchas Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1010211210356.26151B-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com> In-Reply-To: <200102120118.f1C1IkU43227@mobile.wemm.org>
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On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Peter Wemm wrote: > Matt Dillon wrote: > > > > : > > : This is a major change to libc. The library maj must be bumped if you > > : intend to change the sizeof(FILE), or every single third party applicatio > n > > : that uses stdio will break. > > : > > : -Matt > > > > Oh wait, is libc already bumped in current verses 4.2? If so then I gues > s > > we don't bump libc's maj. God help anyone using current though! > > > > -Matt > > > I cant help but wonder why on earth we didn't have it like this from the > start: [...] > That compiles fine. The __stdin thing is in case somebody likes the idea > of #undef stdin or #ifdef stdin for some reason. > > In fact, I can't imagine *any* reason not to do this. At least this would > insulate us from future nasties in FILE size changes, and would have > saved us in this case. I like it, commit it :-) -- Dan Eischen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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