From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 29 18:19:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from chmls06.mediaone.net (chmls06.mediaone.net [24.128.1.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BAA4150AB for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 18:19:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bloom@acm.org) Received: from acm.org (jbloom.ne.mediaone.net [24.128.100.196]) by chmls06.mediaone.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA04209 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 21:19:21 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <37F2BA3C.D54CC74B@acm.org> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 21:17:48 -0400 From: Jim Bloom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en]C-MOENE (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: sigset_t changes committed References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I believe this must be fixed. At some point in time, there is going to be another change to the kernel such that some older version of the code cannot run on a new kernel. I believe this situation has occurred before. This will lead to a situation where a new kernel is required before the build and a new build is required before the new kernel is installed. We cannot have this paradox. Jim Bloom bloom@acm.org Doug wrote: > > On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Harold Gutch wrote: > > > Uhm, that's the way I see it being _right now_ as well. What I > > was thinking of, was that things would go smoother if you > > wouldn't upgrade _right now_, but in [insert some time in the > > near future here], as things would perhaps be "fixed" by then. > > There is no fix to make. If the binaries built by the current > sources cannot run unless the sigset_t stuff is in the kernel of the > machine that they are running on this problem will never be "fixed." > > Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message