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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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