From owner-cvs-all Mon Jun 24 10:19:58 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from root.com (nexus.root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EAB937B401; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 10:19:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dg@localhost) by root.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) id g5OHGsA15653; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 10:16:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dg) Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 10:16:54 -0700 From: David Greenman-Lawrence To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern uipc_syscalls.c Message-ID: <20020624101654.B6982@nexus.root.com> References: <200206240642.g5O6gM327387@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020624011200.A6982@nexus.root.com> <20020624090931.GR53232@elvis.mu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020624090931.GR53232@elvis.mu.org>; from alfred@FreeBSD.org on Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 02:09:31AM -0700 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >* David Greenman-Lawrence [020624 01:52] wrote: >> >alfred 2002/06/23 23:42:22 PDT >> > >> > Modified files: (Branch: RELENG_4) >> > sys/kern uipc_syscalls.c >> > Log: >> > Fix sendfile bug where headers counted against amount of file to be sent. >> > MFC: 1.103 >> >> Uh, don't you think this really needs some binary compatibility goo as >> well since without that this will break binaries that rely on the broken >> behavior? > >That was the point I raised with you when you initially wanted to >MFC it, since niether of us has the time and to paraphrase what you >said "very few consumers exist" I figured getting the correct thing >backported was more important. Actually, what I said was "Yes, this is going to require some backwords compatibility gook before it is MFC'd."...and that was 6 months ago. It's even more true today. Of course this hurdle was the reason it was never MFCed. I'm just thinking about how much of a pain this is going to be to deal with it on all of the DTI servers and figure that other people will choke on it, too. -DG D.G.Lawrence Download Technologies, Inc. - http://www.downloadtech.com - (866) 399 8500 TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com - (503) 288 9544 The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message