From owner-cvs-all Wed Oct 10 12:51:40 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 631E537B405; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 12:51:33 -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 f9AJpVu12935; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 13:51:31 -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 f9AJpP776933; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 13:51:30 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200110101951.f9AJpP776933@harmony.village.org> To: Brian Somers Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/string strnstr.c Makefile.inc strstr.3src/include string.h Cc: Maxim Sobolev , Paul Richards , Garance A Drosihn , Mike Barcroft , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.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> Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 13:51:25 -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 <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