Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 16:29:41 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> Cc: Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl>, Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven <asmodai@bart.nl>, committers@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: More world breakage Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001301625450.305-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <200001302112.VAA06647@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
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On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Brian Somers wrote: > > I'm quite happy to DTRT(tm); I'm unsure that backing this change out > > _is_ the right thing however. Can we discuss it some more first please? > > I think that getflags()/setflags() should stay where they are, but I > can't comment on the namespace pollution issue. If/When the > functions are renamed, they'll probably break make world again > (because the new libc and old install will be there for a while), but > to be honest, this *is* current. > > I think the issue to focus on is the function names. I agree that folks should read current, and be able to do fixes. Do the fix, though, in a way that *doesn't* require yet another fix later on, and post the extraordinary steps clearly here, in a "HEADS-UP" mail that folks will definitely see, and maybe stick something in UPDATING too? At least, give everyone a fair chance, don't embed the fix as the end of a 1,000 words of context email, at the end of a long thread. That wouldn't be fair. Not for extraordinary breakage. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD, chuckr@picnic.mat.net | electronics, communications, and signal processing. New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up fictitious words in the dictionary. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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