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Date:      Mon, 24 Jun 2002 10:16:54 -0700
From:      David Greenman-Lawrence <dg@root.com>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.org>
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>
In-Reply-To: <20020624090931.GR53232@elvis.mu.org>; from alfred@FreeBSD.org on Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 02:09:31AM -0700
References:  <200206240642.g5O6gM327387@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020624011200.A6982@nexus.root.com> <20020624090931.GR53232@elvis.mu.org>

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>* David Greenman-Lawrence <dg@root.com> [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

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