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Date:      Wed, 29 Nov 2000 14:57:51 -0500 (EST)
From:      Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
To:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@cup.hp.com>
Cc:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Modifying FILE to add lock
Message-ID:  <Pine.SUN.3.91.1001129145439.1117A-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <3A255D8A.7F5CFB26@cup.hp.com>

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On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> Daniel Eischen wrote:
> > 
> > > I have no objection as long as you bump the shared lib version
> > > from -stable.  This would be a great time to do it.
> > 
> > This would only be in -current (where the library versions have
> > already been bumped) and for our new libpthread.
> 
> I agree. We should not MFC this. Library version bumps halfway on a
> -stable branch doesn't seem appropriate. Changing structures is not
> done, IMO.
> 
> Anyway: In stdio.h I'm told that I should read the warning before
> changing the layout of struct __sFILE. There doesn't seem to be a
> warning anywhere in the header file, so I figure it must be the long
> comment before the struct declaration. The comment doesn't tell me what
> happens if I change the layout. It only tells me what certain fields are
> for and doesn't mention _offset at all, even though that field
> specifically references the warning.

I was also confused by the warning, which is part of the reason
I posted this to -arch.

-- 
Dan Eischen


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