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Date:      Thu, 26 Feb 2004 14:14:32 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 64btt cvsup?
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20040226141432.jdp@polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: <20040226220817.GA7995@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On 26-Feb-2004 Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 02:02:42PM -0800, John Polstra wrote:
>> 
>> Lots of things can go wrong here.
> 
> Note that there has just been a flag day in 5.2-CURRENT that required
> everyone to rebuild everything linked to libc_r (or take libmap
> countermeasures).  Before that, in 5.1-CURRENT the change to fstatfs()
> required everyone to rebuild everything that called that function
> (with no workarounds available).
> 
> The impact of this change is hardly unprecedented, and when discussed
> here there was strong consensus that we should just take the hit and
> do it now before 5.x-STABLE comes along and we lose the justification
> for breaking binary compatibility.

OK, this wouldn't be the first time I'd been overly cautious. :-}

John



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