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Date:      Sat, 19 Sep 1998 11:02:23 -0700
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf newvers.sh 
Message-ID:  <199809191802.LAA01529@austin.polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 19 Sep 1998 12:55:23 CDT." <Pine.OSF.4.02.9809191250160.1204-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net> 

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> Yes campers I'm the guilty party.  The sad thing is that
> I did this not once but twice.  Color me dense and pass
> me the pointy hat. <:(
> 
> Steve
> 
> On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, John Polstra wrote:
> 
> # jdp         1998/09/19 10:32:01 PDT
> # 
> #   Modified files:        (Branch: RELENG_2_2)
> #     sys/conf             newvers.sh 
> #   Log:
> #   Increment RELDATE to 227002 so that it can be used to test for a
> #   recent interface change introduced in "src/sys/sys/sem.h" revision
> #   1.8.2.1.  Unfortunately, this comes 12 days after the change was
> #   made.

Well, yes, you're the guilty one.  But you'll have to do better than
that to earn the coveted pointy hat. :-) Nobody ever remembers to
bump RELDATE.  Also, the change you made was a perfectly safe one for
"normal" applications, because it relaxed the prototype instead of
making it stricter.  It took a really weird application to get broken
by that.

John
--
   John Polstra                                       jdp@polstra.com
   John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                Seattle, Washington USA
   "Self-knowledge is always bad news."                 -- John Barth



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