From owner-cvs-all Wed Oct 10 8:17:44 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D4CA37B403; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 08:17:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f9AFHbu11814; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 09:17:38 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f9AFHO774847; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 09:17:28 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200110101517.f9AFHO774847@harmony.village.org> To: Paul Richards Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/string strnstr.c Makefile.inc strstr.3 src/include string.h Cc: Garance A Drosihn , Brian Somers , Mike Barcroft , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 10 Oct 2001 15:44:40 BST." <1468350000.1002725080@lobster.originative.co.uk> References: <1468350000.1002725080@lobster.originative.co.uk> <200110090955.f999tT490240@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 09:17:24 -0600 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <1468350000.1002725080@lobster.originative.co.uk> Paul Richards writes: : It only fixes a problem if you rewrite the applications to use it, and then : those applications won't run on earlier 4.x branches. : : I'm not sure the rule of not breaking binary compatibility across -stable : branches has any relevance any more though since it's already a screwed : policy. The project has never cared about this sort of forward compatibility. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message