From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Apr 19 20:19:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (earth-nat-cw.backplane.com [208.161.114.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05B5137B43C for ; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 20:19:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@earth.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) id f3K3JEp66472; Thu, 19 Apr 2001 20:19:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 20:19:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200104200319.f3K3JEp66472@earth.backplane.com> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" Cc: bsddiy@163.net (David Xu), tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), bde@zeta.org.au ((Bruce Evans)), arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re[2]: Found BAD BUG: squashed References: <200104200205.TAA66037@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG : :And instantly invalidate the viability of commercial software vendors :4.3-RELEASE versions of code running on systems tracking -stable to :keep up with serious bug fixes. : :It's a double edge sword, this change should either go in now, or :Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net I think this is an overreaction. ucred is almost universally used as an opaque structure. It seems highly unlikely to me that it will break anything outside the cvs tree. In fact, not a single program in /usr/src/sys/dev references elements inside a ucred (and barely reference the ucred itself). But, even though we don't think it will break anything is no excuse to risk the 4.3-release on the change. If something bad breaks after the 4.3 release we can always back it out. If we break 4.3 itself we're stuck. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message