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Date:      Sun, 12 Nov 2000 12:37:19 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        asami@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: libc shlib version
Message-ID:  <200011122037.eACKbJ540686@vashon.polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: <vqcsnoxszs1.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>
References:  <200011120651.eAC6paj79972@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu> <200011121918.eACJI6l40407@vashon.polstra.com> <vqcsnoxszs1.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>

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In article <vqcsnoxszs1.fsf@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>,
Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:
>  * From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
> 
>  * In article <200011120651.eAC6paj79972@silvia.hip.berkeley.edu>,
>  * Satoshi Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:
>  * 
>  * > It was brought to my attention that recent 40upgrade kills all the
>  * > networking programs.  Looking at the plists, the only thing I can
>  * > think of is that libc.so.4 has somehow lost backward compatibility.
>  * 
>  * This isn't much to go on.  What are the symptoms?
> 
> I don't know much either, as I haven't experienced it myself.  The
> reports say core dumps from fetch, etc.  Please see PR #21997.

OK, all those failures are signal 12 == SIGSYS == non-existent signal
call.  Somebody must have made a change to libc which caused it to
start using a signal call that didn't exist in 4.0-RELEASE.  So yes,
I suppose that the version number of libc should be bumped.  Likewise
for libc_r, if it hasn't already been bumped for this release.  What a
pain -- that means yet another compatxx distribution.

Whether the bump is still possible at this late date is a question for
the Release Engineer.

John
-- 
  John Polstra                                               jdp@polstra.com
  John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                        Seattle, Washington USA
  "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence."  -- Chögyam Trungpa



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