From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Apr 19 0:54:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D117037B43C for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 00:54:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f3J7sX424633; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 00:54:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 00:54:33 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Matt Dillon Cc: Bruce Evans , Terry Lambert , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Found BAD BUG: squashed Message-ID: <20010419005432.D976@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <200104182323.QAA22635@usr07.primenet.com> <20010418182423.A976@fw.wintelcom.net> <200104190752.f3J7qoC51933@earth.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200104190752.f3J7qoC51933@earth.backplane.com>; from dillon@earth.backplane.com on Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 12:52:50AM -0700 X-all-your-base: are belong to us. Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Matt Dillon [010419 00:52] wrote: > > :> 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. I'm sorta in over-zealous bugfix mode lately, you're right though we ought to wait. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [alfred@freebsd.org] Represent yourself, show up at BABUG http://www.babug.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message