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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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