From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 11 18: 5:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from pcnet1.pcnet.com (pcnet1.pcnet.com [204.213.232.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FBA337B4EC for ; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 18:05:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (from eischen@localhost) by pcnet1.pcnet.com (8.8.7/PCNet) id VAA27250; Sun, 11 Feb 2001 21:05:12 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 21:05:10 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Eischen To: Peter Wemm Cc: Matt Dillon , Tor.Egge@fast.no, bde@zeta.org.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: installworld gotchas In-Reply-To: <200102120118.f1C1IkU43227@mobile.wemm.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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