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Date:      Wed, 10 Oct 2001 09:17:24 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
To:        Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.com>
Cc:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, Brian Somers <brian@freebsd-services.com>, Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/string strnstr.c Makefile.inc strstr.3 src/include string.h 
Message-ID:  <200110101517.f9AFHO774847@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Oct 2001 15:44:40 BST." <1468350000.1002725080@lobster.originative.co.uk> 
References:  <1468350000.1002725080@lobster.originative.co.uk>  <200110090955.f999tT490240@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> <p05101002b7e8c3250150@[128.113.24.47]> 

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In message <1468350000.1002725080@lobster.originative.co.uk> Paul Richards writes:
: It only fixes a problem if you rewrite the applications to use it, and then
: those applications won't run on earlier 4.x branches.
: 
: I'm not sure the rule of not breaking binary compatibility across -stable
: branches has any relevance any more though since it's already a screwed
: policy.

The project has never cared about this sort of forward compatibility.

Warner

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