Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 20:19:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> Cc: bsddiy@163.net (David Xu), tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert), bde@zeta.org.au ((Bruce Evans)), arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re[2]: Found BAD BUG: squashed Message-ID: <200104200319.f3K3JEp66472@earth.backplane.com> References: <200104200205.TAA66037@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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:And instantly invalidate the viability of commercial software vendors
:4.3-RELEASE versions of code running on systems tracking -stable to
:keep up with serious bug fixes.
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:It's a double edge sword, this change should either go in now, or
:Rod Grimes - KD7CAX @ CN85sl - (RWG25) rgrimes@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net
I think this is an overreaction. ucred is almost universally used
as an opaque structure. It seems highly unlikely to me that it
will break anything outside the cvs tree. In fact, not a single
program in /usr/src/sys/dev references elements inside a ucred (and
barely reference the ucred itself).
But, even though we don't think it will break anything is no excuse to
risk the 4.3-release on the change. If something bad breaks after the
4.3 release we can always back it out. If we break 4.3 itself we're
stuck.
-Matt
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