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Date:      Thu, 17 May 2001 10:29:51 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
Cc:        Matt Dillon <dillon@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_prot.c src/sys/sys ucred.h 
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010517102638.18852A-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <200105170616.f4H6GcE01157@harmony.village.org>

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On Thu, 17 May 2001, Warner Losh wrote:

> In message <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1010517021401.8919E-100000@fledge.watson.org> Robert Watson writes:
> : Note that this may break binary compatibility for kernel modules that
> : relied on the existing crhold() macro.  As such, this probably needs a
> : warning in UPDATING that modules must be recompiled, especially since this
> : is in -STABLE.
> 
> You are right, but any idea if such modules exist?

Hmm.  Well, credential references are manipulated by at least the NFS and
SMBfs code, but I haven't really looked into much more detail.  I haven't
figured out the byte order issues, but it may be this has different
effects on different platforms.  I'd just give a general note of caution.
I think having the cr_ref updating in -STABLE is great, we just need to be
careful.

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project
robert@fledge.watson.org      NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services



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