From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 4 06:32:48 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA6A0106566B for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2012 06:32:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Received: from vps1.elischer.org (vps1.elischer.org [204.109.63.16]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E8048FC0C for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2012 06:32:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from julian-mac.elischer.org (c-67-180-24-15.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [67.180.24.15]) (authenticated bits=0) by vps1.elischer.org (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q246Wdij030449 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 3 Mar 2012 22:32:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <4F530C8F.5090904@freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 22:32:47 -0800 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2.27) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/3.1.19 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Huff References: <4F51D916.5090301@gmail.com> <20306.6373.473180.224900@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <20306.6373.473180.224900@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SeaMonkey eats the CPU as of r232144 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2012 06:32:48 -0000 On 3/3/12 5:13 AM, Robert Huff wrote: > deeptech71@gmail.com writes: > >> I always had the impression that using an older world with a more >> recent kernel is almost always supported, and the exceptional >> cases are noted in the UPDATING file, as a quote shows: "User >> utilities using SIOCAIFADDR, SIOCAIFADDR_IN6, e.g. ifconfig(8), >> need to be recompiled.". > One wonders where you got this impression, because I have > always had pretty much the opposite - or at least the "correct > operation where running world not matched to running kernel is > presumed unlikely until proven otherwise" version. > (Yes, it often works ... except when it doesn't.) generally we support an older world with a newer kernel. We actually rely on that during upgrade.. The threading library can have some dependencies, but in this case I think it was just that a bug was fixed in the userland library. > Respectfully, > > > Robert Huff > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >