From owner-freebsd-current Sun Nov 5 14:38:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B584637B4E5 for ; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 14:38:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA65770; Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:38:26 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 17:38:26 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200011052238.RAA65770@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ABI is broken?? In-Reply-To: <20001105135109.A29323@lucifer.bart.nl> References: <3A005026.47B9978C@FreeBSD.org> <200011011835.eA1IZl207585@vashon.polstra.com> <3A006A58.E8315ABA@FreeBSD.org> <200011012019.PAA97860@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20001101144355.A75475@dragon.nuxi.com> <200011020426.XAA01712@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20001105135109.A29323@lucifer.bart.nl> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG < said: > I also gather it has to do with the Austin project Garrett? Yes and no. The errors have been there since the beginning of time, but I actually noticed them doing review of our implementation wrt the new standard. For example, the System V IPC implementation uses a data structure bogusly copied bitwise from SVR3, which only had 16-bit [ug]id_t's. The patch I sent out before BSDcon contains a number of things noted in this regard. The other thing that we need to do is to hide the DB 1.85 library that's currently in libc, so that it doesn't prevent third-party applications from making full use of DB 3.x (when installed). This will involve renaming all of the public identifiers in the DB library, and converting the libc code to use the internal names. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message