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Date:      Wed, 10 Oct 2001 13:51:25 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
To:        Brian Somers <brian@freebsd-services.com>
Cc:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>, Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com>, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/string strnstr.c Makefile.inc strstr.3src/include string.h 
Message-ID:  <200110101951.f9AJpP776933@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Oct 2001 16:22:24 BST." <200110101522.f9AFMOg11391@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> 
References:  <200110101522.f9AFMOg11391@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>  

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In message <200110101522.f9AFMOg11391@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Brian Somers writes:
: I've always understood the rule to be that -stable remains binary 
: compatible (both forwards and backwards) while the major release 
: number is the same.

Only backwards, but never forwards.  And not for some kernel
interfaces.  While there may be periods of time that you can build,
say, a 4.2 binary and have it work on 4.1, that hasn't been a priority
in the past.  We've added a lot of APIs over the years to stable
branches...

Warner

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