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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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Subject: Re: HEADS UP: ABI compatibility of getnet*(3) was lost
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On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 09:29:25PM +0900, Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> The n_net of a struct netent was changed to an uint32_t, and 1st
> argument of getnetbyaddr() was changed to an uint32_t, to conform to
> POSIX-2001.  These changes broke an ABI compatibility on 64 bit
> architecture.  With these changes, shlib major of libpcap was bumped.
> You have to recompile userland programs that use getnetbyaddr(3),
> getnetbyname(3), getnetent(3) and/or libpcap on 64 bit architecture.

Unfortunately it will take me at least a week or two to rebuild
packages on sparc64 and (especially) amd64, so users of those
platforms may want to wait before upgrading if they don't want to
recompile their ports from scratch.

Kris

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