From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Apr 19 0:52:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (earth-nat-cw.backplane.com [208.161.114.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A08D37B424 for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 00:52:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@earth.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f3J7qoC51933; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 00:52:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 00:52:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200104190752.f3J7qoC51933@earth.backplane.com> To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Bruce Evans , Terry Lambert , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Found BAD BUG: squashed References: <200104182323.QAA22635@usr07.primenet.com> <20010418182423.A976@fw.wintelcom.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG :> 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. : :-- :-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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message