Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 23:39:33 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/stdio findfp.c Message-ID: <20021101073933.GI24139@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <20021101180942.Q14336-100000@gamplex.bde.org> References: <20021031213557.GG6446@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> <20021101180942.Q14336-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
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* Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> [021031 23:17] wrote: > > > Overall, I think we do fairly well. There have been three major API > > breakages that I can think of: a.out -> ELF, the sigset_t changes > > and these __sF changes. > > ... but apart from these changes they (current applications) often do > run on old kernels unless they are very system-specific. The a.out > -> ELF incompatibilities and maybe the sigset_t changes were unavoidable, > but the others are mostly just from poor organization. I'm not sure I understand the importance of all of this honestly but I don't think anyone would object if options were added to make.conf to conditionalize __sF and the signal stuff, the default being the current settings though. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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