From owner-freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 2 20:26:33 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: standards@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D10F216A41C; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 20:26:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ume@mahoroba.org) Received: from cheer.mahoroba.org (gw4.mahoroba.org [218.45.22.175]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25BF543D58; Thu, 2 Jun 2005 20:26:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ume@mahoroba.org) Received: from lyrics.mahoroba.org (ume@lyrics.mahoroba.org [IPv6:3ffe:501:185b:8010:280:88ff:fe03:4841]) (user=ume mech=CRAM-MD5 bits=0) by cheer.mahoroba.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP/inet6 id j52KQLat086993 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 3 Jun 2005 05:26:21 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from ume@mahoroba.org) Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 05:26:18 +0900 Message-ID: From: Hajimu UMEMOTO To: Daniel Eischen In-Reply-To: References: User-Agent: xcite1.38> Wanderlust/2.15.1 (Almost Unreal) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.7 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Sanj=F2?=) APEL/10.6 Emacs/22.0.50 (i386-unknown-freebsd5.4) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.4-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 succeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0b5 (cheer.mahoroba.org [IPv6:3ffe:501:185b:8010::1]); Fri, 03 Jun 2005 05:26:22 +0900 (JST) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.8 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on cheer.mahoroba.org Cc: nectar@freebsd.org, standards@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [CFR] correct type of addrinfo.ai_addrlen and netent.n_net X-BeenThere: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Standards compliance List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2005 20:26:34 -0000 Hi, >>>>> On Thu, 2 Jun 2005 15:59:07 -0400 (EDT) >>>>> Daniel Eischen said: > Ultimately, I wish to correct struct addrinfo, too. Since correcting > getnetbyaddr(3) breaks ABI compatibility after all, it seems storange > to me to leave struct addrinfo alone as is. It is better to take this > occasion to correct struct addrinfo as well. > This breakage is only on 64 bit arch. The influence will grow as 64 > bit arch spreads. So, I believe it should be done as soon as > possible. deischen> Just leave it alone for now. Please clarify what you mean for `it'. Which are you mean only struct addrinfo issue or both? deischen> When symbol versioning comes, you should be able to remove deischen> the padding without bumping library versions and producing deischen> imcompatibilities. It's curious. Is there any plan to provide symbol versioning? Sincerely, -- Hajimu UMEMOTO @ Internet Mutual Aid Society Yokohama, Japan ume@mahoroba.org ume@{,jp.}FreeBSD.org http://www.imasy.org/~ume/