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Date:      Fri, 14 Nov 2003 16:40:57 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        Kirk McKusick <mckusick@beastie.mckusick.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS-UP new statfs structure 
Message-ID:  <16309.19433.564671.856750@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200311142119.hAELJPaG011962@beastie.mckusick.com>
References:  <3FB49342.3000404@xtaz.co.uk> <200311142119.hAELJPaG011962@beastie.mckusick.com>

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Kirk McKusick writes:
 > > 
 > > And mail/postfix and devel/gnomevfs2 (ones's i've found so far)

<...>

 > This is why we make this change now so that it will be in place
 > for the masses when 5.2 is released :-)

Can't we bump the libc version so that dynamically linked, non-system
binaries can continue to work?   Having things like postfix and gnome
dumping core seems excessivly bumpy.  Upgrading all ports is a pain.

Yes, I realize that people upgrading from 4.x won't see this, but
people upgrading from 5.1-R will.   

Drew






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