From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Nov 15 12:45: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D73B37B4CF; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 12:45:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id MAA32477; Wed, 15 Nov 2000 12:44:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 12:44:45 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Warner Losh Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami Subject: Re: libc shlib version Message-ID: <20001115124445.A32318@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <31309.974061923@winston.osd.bsdi.com> <200011130413.eAD4DKj41211@vashon.polstra.com> <200011131727.eADHR8c42388@vashon.polstra.com> <20001113153325.D39667@dragon.nuxi.com> <20001114081845.A76050@dragon.nuxi.com> <20001114155611.A94037@dragon.nuxi.com> <200011150721.eAF7L2G47704@billy-club.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200011150721.eAF7L2G47704@billy-club.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 12:21:02AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 12:21:02AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > Maybe I'm crazy, but can't we find and kill the API change that caused > this and back it out for 4.x? I suspect it was the per interface stat > changes in the network code, but I could very well be wrong. We should not, the API change was one allowed by the way we bump shared version numbers. Rather than deal with this single case, we should consider the issue in the large. > These sorts of things aren't supposed to impact libc at all. Do we > know which one caused the problem? Sure they are. We can add syscalls,etc al. utill the cows come home and not bump the version number. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message