From owner-freebsd-current Fri May 29 16:03:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA25356 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 29 May 1998 16:03:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA25351 for ; Fri, 29 May 1998 16:03:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA01107; Fri, 29 May 1998 14:57:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805292157.OAA01107@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Terry Lambert cc: joelh@gnu.org, nate@mt.sri.com, rnordier@nordier.com, eivind@yes.no, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fix for undefined "__error" and discussion of shared object versioning In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 29 May 1998 21:22:43 -0000." <199805292122.OAA15162@usr04.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 29 May 1998 14:57:04 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I'm not discussing what should be, I'm discussing what is. We have a > > good percentage of software from the Linux camps, and many of their > > software authors wouldn't know a non-portable construct if it walked > > up and introduced itself in assembly code. > > If the plan is to "make it work anyway", how do you propose the common > Linux programming error where they fail to zero sockarr_in contents > before partially filling in values and using them? Fix the (broken) code in the kernel that depends on zero terminators in "magic" locations. Ask Julian what he thinks about this. If he's noncommittal, remind him of the experience we had last year... -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message