From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 13 19:51:49 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D49A416A404; Sat, 13 May 2006 19:51:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ume@mahoroba.org) Received: from ameno.mahoroba.org (gw4.mahoroba.org [218.45.22.175]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 026DA43D46; Sat, 13 May 2006 19:51:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ume@mahoroba.org) Received: from kasuga.mahoroba.org (IDENT:QvZjABXjQCrVtYxf+WgRMmMhKyZ6nFfSoefA5Fs/RUXpcQUP170he9if1ZrXOI5x@kasuga-iwi.mahoroba.org [IPv6:3ffe:501:185b:8010:212:f0ff:fe52:6ac]) (user=ume mech=CRAM-MD5 bits=0) by ameno.mahoroba.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP/inet6 id k4DJpfPI080669 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 14 May 2006 04:51:41 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from ume@mahoroba.org) Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 04:51:41 +0900 Message-ID: From: Hajimu UMEMOTO To: Daniel Eischen In-Reply-To: References: User-Agent: xcite1.38> Wanderlust/2.14.0 (Africa) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.8 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Shij=F2?=) APEL/10.6 Emacs/22.0.50 (i386--freebsd) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE X-PGP-Key: http://www.imasy.or.jp/~ume/publickey.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 1F00 0B9E 2164 70FC 6DC5 BF5F 04E9 F086 BF90 71FE Organization: Internet Mutual Aid Society, YOKOHAMA MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.5 (ameno.mahoroba.org [IPv6:3ffe:501:185b:8010::1]); Sun, 14 May 2006 04:51:42 +0900 (JST) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.1 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.1 (2006-03-10) on ameno.mahoroba.org Cc: re@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Shared library version bump? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 19:51:49 -0000 Hi, >>>>> On Fri, 12 May 2006 13:44:58 -0400 (EDT) >>>>> Daniel Eischen said: > I wish to fix following things which break ABI backward compatibility > when libc version bump: > > - gethostbyaddr(3) prototype to conform to POSIX. > - Fix wrong usage of EAI_MEMORY in getnameinfo(). It needs to > return EAI_OVERFLOW. > - Update res_update() and friends to BIND9's one. > - Nuke some compatibility crufts for 6.X and earlier. deischen> Go ahead. Just realize though, that after 7.0 is released deischen> you will have to support any ABI from then on without version deischen> bumps (meaning, you have to keep shims for any old 7.0+ ABIs deischen> in libc). Okay, I'll do. Sincerely, -- Hajimu UMEMOTO @ Internet Mutual Aid Society Yokohama, Japan ume@mahoroba.org ume@{,jp.}FreeBSD.org http://www.imasy.org/~ume/