Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2001 18:44:09 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> 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: <200102120244.f1C2i9U44061@mobile.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1010211210356.26151B-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
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Daniel Eischen wrote:
> 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 yo
u
> > > : intend to change the sizeof(FILE), or every single third party applic
atio
> > 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 :-)
Well, now that we've broken the ABI, now is as good a time as any...
Cheers,
-Peter
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