From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 29 23:48:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from shale.csir.co.za (shale.csir.co.za [146.64.46.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06F0014D64 for ; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 23:48:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reg@shale.csir.co.za) Received: from granite.hip.berkeley.edu (granite.hip.berkeley.edu [136.152.155.25]) by shale.csir.co.za (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA20460; Thu, 30 Sep 1999 08:47:48 +0200 (SAT) (envelope-from reg@shale.csir.co.za) Received: (from reg@localhost) by granite.hip.berkeley.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA37718; Wed, 29 Sep 1999 23:47:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reg) Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 23:47:18 -0700 From: Jeremy Lea To: John-Mark Gurney Cc: Garrett Wollman , "Rodney W. Grimes" , Doug , Harold Gutch , Ben Rosengart , Marcel Moolenaar , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: sigset_t changes committed Message-ID: <19990929234718.B35653@shale.csir.co.za> References: <199909292351.QAA21938@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> <199909300054.UAA01918@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <19990929220707.10581@hydrogen.fircrest.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre3i In-Reply-To: <19990929220707.10581@hydrogen.fircrest.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 10:07:07PM -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > Garrett Wollman scribbled this message on Sep 29: > > < said: > > > > > If it is broken, please back out the signal changes or fix the tools > > > target. > > > > No, Rod, just Deal With It(tm). > > actually, no, I would like this fixed... I will be unable to develope > FreeBSD if the tools target doesn't work!! I do all of my compiles on > a 3.0-R box (yes, that's right, 3.0-R) and it will basicly stop me from > doing any of that... > > this is a VERY bad thing to happen to FreeBSD... Is there no way for a new tool (especially through libc) to detect it is running on an old kernel, and do things the old way? The test would need to be done once per application, and could be conditionised so that it was only included in the tools built during a make world... Regards, -Jeremy (who hasn't looked at the code) -- | "Come home my prodigal son, come home and lets be one, --+-- don't want to see you cry, don't make me tell you why, | you've lived in a house with me, my blood has set you free, | in the world you'll surely die, nothing else will satisfy." -MIC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message