From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 30 13:30: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AEAE14D33; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 13:29:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA23122; Sun, 30 Jan 2000 16:29:45 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chuckr@picnic.mat.net) Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2000 16:29:41 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: Brian Somers Cc: Josef Karthauser , John Baldwin , Marcel Moolenaar , Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven , committers@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: More world breakage In-Reply-To: <200001302112.VAA06647@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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