From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 10 18:12:50 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D71516A4CE; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:12:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mx1.originative.co.uk (freebsd.gotadsl.co.uk [81.6.249.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5459243D53; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:12:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from paul@mx1.originative.co.uk) Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by mx1.originative.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2A3D15586; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:12:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mx1.originative.co.uk ([127.0.0.1])port 10024) with ESMTP id 35533-10; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:12:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: by mx1.originative.co.uk (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5F81A15589; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:12:10 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:12:09 +0000 From: Paul Richards To: Jens Schweikhardt Message-ID: <20050310181209.GT98930@myrddin.originative.co.uk> References: <422E407B.4080507@portaone.com> <86k6oht386.fsf@xps.des.no> <422F087F.9030906@portaone.com> <20050309.085035.129356491.imp@bsdimp.com> <422F6703.70409@portaone.com> <20050310161607.GO98930@myrddin.originative.co.uk> <86d5u7fn1z.fsf@xps.des.no> <20050310171917.GQ98930@myrddin.originative.co.uk> <20050310175044.GB784@schweikhardt.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050310175044.GB784@schweikhardt.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at originative.co.uk cc: Maxim Sobolev cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org cc: alfred@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org cc: Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav cc: "M. Warner Losh" Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/compat/linux linux_socket.c X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:12:50 -0000 On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 06:50:44PM +0100, Jens Schweikhardt wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 05:19:18PM +0000, Paul Richards wrote: > # On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 06:06:16PM +0100, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: > # > Paul Richards writes: > # > > Imagine something like Photoshop being written on the most recent > # > > version of Mac OS X and finding that compatibility only worked > # > > forward. That would mean that most users out there would have to > # > > upgrade their OS in order to use the most recent version of Photoshop! > # > > # > Yes, that is usually how it goes. > # > # I don't believe it does. Can anyone provide real world examples of > # this happening that we can consider? > > SunOS 4^WSolaris 1 vs Solaris 2 and the SparcWorks compiler suite? SunOS > 4 users had to make do with the much inferior acc ("ansi c compiler"). > Yes, that was long ago, but not unheard of, even in the commercial world. We're not talking about compatibility across major versions, only within the lifetime of a stable branch. -- Paul Richards