From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Dec 21 12: 0:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail12.speakeasy.net (mail12.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.212]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 774BB37B41E for ; Fri, 21 Dec 2001 12:00:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 2112 invoked from network); 21 Dec 2001 20:00:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO laptop.baldwin.cx) ([64.81.54.73]) (envelope-sender ) by mail12.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 21 Dec 2001 20:00:07 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20011221115726.A80777@darkstar.gte.net> Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 11:59:50 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Robert Clark Subject: Re: Just lost one to Linux. Compaq server support. Cc: FreeBSD Chat List , Cc: FreeBSD Chat List , Francisco Reyes , Chris Dillon Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 21-Dec-01 Robert Clark wrote: > > Thanks for that answer Chris. > > I've figured out what a PHB is, but what does MFC mean > when referring to a code change? > > I thought it might mean Microsoft Foundation Classes, but > that would be kind of weird when referring to a non > Microsoft library. (?) MFC is documented in the FAQ at www.FreeBSD.org. :) However, the short version is that MFC == Merge From Current, which means that a change made in the -current branch is merged into the -stable branch. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message