Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 02:57:33 -0700 (PDT) From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) To: pst@shockwave.com Cc: gpalmer@freebsd.org, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, cvs-usrbin@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/top machine.c Message-ID: <199706010957.CAA28142@blimp.mimi.com> In-Reply-To: <199705311551.IAA20420@precipice.shockwave.com> (message from Paul Traina on Sat, 31 May 1997 08:51:14 -0700)
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* Do you realize how much userland code would break if we upped the namespace * in 2.2? Not much, as far as I can tell. I changed utmp.h and param.h and recompiled world and kernel on all my 2.2 machines around here. After rebuilding ssh, xterm, kterm and xdm, all my machines are running fine. (I did this so I can dual-boot to 2.2 and 3.0, by the way.) It is my opinion that changes of this sort (including login.conf) should be held back from merging. With 3.0 going totally bezerk with smp and related changes, it seems like our releases are going to come out of the 2.2 branch for quite a while, and we don't want it to become stale like the 2.1 branch was. On the other hand, if we can somehow shield this information from userland code (didn't Joerg (?) mention adding functions to libutil to get these in runtime?), maybe it's even better (and no need to worry about differences between 2.2 and 3.0, at least for this...). Satoshi
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