From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 29 17:52:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B3A9155A1 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 17:52:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA01910; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 20:52:20 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 20:52:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199909300052.UAA01910@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Ben Rosengart Cc: Harold Gutch , Doug , Marcel Moolenaar , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: sigset_t changes committed In-Reply-To: References: <19990929231253.B26394@foobar.franken.de> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG < said: > If I understand correctly, it only needs to be done once per system, but > it makes no difference whether it happens on a given system now or six > months from now. Surely. The thing we have to be careful about is making sure that the kernel does not grow new dependencies on software that now can't get built ahead of time. I tripped over one of these when I last upgraded my desktop: the kernel contained some __asm statements which were only valid in EGCS. This is a hard problem in general, but sometimes we just need to say ``screw it!'' and do what's necessary to advance the state of the art. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message