Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 00:52:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Found BAD BUG: squashed Message-ID: <200104190752.f3J7qoC51933@earth.backplane.com> References: <200104182323.QAA22635@usr07.primenet.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104191046120.5481-100000@besplex.bde.org> <20010418182423.A976@fw.wintelcom.net>
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:> These bytes can used for larger reference counts without changing the
:> size of the struct, but not without breaking binary compatibility.
:> Fortunately, "cr_ref" is invalid in userland.
:
:*slaps forhead*
:
:Bruce, you rule. Any chance you can fix this before release? You
:should be right about refcounts. I know binary compatbility is
:important, however since it's contained within the kernel I think
:that supporting > 32k sockets per application might be a nice thing
:for 4.3.
:
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:-Alfred Perlstein - [alfred@freebsd.org]
Oh, please don't. I'm sure Terry can wait until after 4.3 release to
get this fix in! There is no sense chancing it.
-Matt
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