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Date:      Fri, 14 Nov 2003 18:59:42 -0500
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, Munish Chopra <chopra@soulwax.net>, kirk@mckusick.com
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS-UP new statfs structure
Message-ID:  <p0600200fbbdb1c91ed0e@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1031114172113.24606C-100000@fledge.watson.org>
References:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1031114172113.24606C-100000@fledge.watson.org>

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At 5:26 PM -0500 11/14/03, Robert Watson wrote:
>
>As soon as you recompile libc, applications expecting the old
>statfs() ABI get the new statfs(), and depending on where their
>smaller struct statfs is located, may stomp on memory they're
>using for something else (like critical data structures).

But if they are re-compiled, won't they be re-compiled with
the newer struct statfs?  (and thus be the correct size)

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu



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