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Date:      Sun, 21 May 2006 08:39:34 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
To:        Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@freebsd.org>
Cc:        re@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Shared library version bump?
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.64.0605210839001.7421@sea.ntplx.net>
In-Reply-To: <ygey7wvioud.wl%ume@mahoroba.org>
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On Sun, 21 May 2006, Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote:

> Hi,
>
>>>>>> On Sun, 14 May 2006 04:51:41 +0900
>>>>>> Hajimu UMEMOTO <ume@freebsd.org> said:
>
>>>>>> On Fri, 12 May 2006 13:44:58 -0400 (EDT)
>>>>>> Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> said:
>
>> I wish to fix following things which break ABI backward compatibility
>> when libc version bump:
>>
>>  - gethostbyaddr(3) prototype to conform to POSIX.
>>  - Fix wrong usage of EAI_MEMORY in getnameinfo().  It needs to
>>    return EAI_OVERFLOW.
>>  - Update res_update() and friends to BIND9's one.
>>  - Nuke some compatibility crufts for 6.X and earlier.
>
> deischen> Go ahead.  Just realize though, that after 7.0 is released
> deischen> you will have to support any ABI from then on without version
> deischen> bumps (meaning, you have to keep shims for any old 7.0+ ABIs
> deischen> in libc).
>
> ume> Okay, I'll do.
>
> Done.

That's great, but we haven't had a library version bump yet ;-)

-- 
DE



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