Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2011 09:52:27 +0200 From: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> To: Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org>, Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn: head/sys/netinet Message-ID: <20111231075227.GX50300@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> In-Reply-To: <4EFE5665.1070902@FreeBSD.org> References: <201110071343.p97Dh1c9013228@svn.freebsd.org> <4EFE0FC1.6070909@FreeBSD.org> <20111230200249.GF12721@FreeBSD.org> <4EFE5481.6050707@FreeBSD.org> <4EFE5665.1070902@FreeBSD.org>
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--52WwYqOHjOVYa1kb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 04:25:09PM -0800, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > On 12/30/2011 4:17 PM, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > >>M> Won't this break whole lot of third-party software, which expects > >>M> FreeBSD to be slightly different in this regards? Just curious. > >> > >>Yes it does. And until FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE there is time to fix > >>this software (at least in ports). > >> > >>The MFC to stable/9 of r226105 was back out. > > > >Well, I am just curious how critical it is to get it resolved and is > >there any way to avoid ABI breakage. Software compiled for 9.x won't run > >on 10.x even when fitted with the proper compat libs, as far as I can > >tell and not all software can be easily recompiled. >=20 > P.S. It should be trivial to put some COMPAT_8/COMPAT_9 shims based on=20 > the version of the ELF image (i.e. detect if the binary is < than=20 > FreeBSD 10. What exactly do you mean by 'version of the ELF image' ? ABI note tag ? What do you propose to do if older call comes from dso, or a library statically linked in the main binary ? --52WwYqOHjOVYa1kb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAk7+vzoACgkQC3+MBN1Mb4gPrACaAzE4D9003W3AvPZWiXUPI3ah 1UgAoKjskNGvbJpIdPlfr0zmEOSr+hME =d+8Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --52WwYqOHjOVYa1kb--
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