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Date:      Sun, 09 Jan 2005 19:33:19 -0500 (EST)
From:      Mike Heffner <mheffner@vt.edu>
To:        Stefan Farfeleder <stefanf@FreeBSD.org>, tjr@freebsd.org, freebsd-standards@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: standards/55112: glob.h, glob_t's gl_pathc should be "size_t", not "int".
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20050109193319.mheffner@vt.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20050109095304.GD836@wombat.fafoe.narf.at>

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What is the policy for how long to wait after a LIBC major bump before
addressing ABI issues? Currently standards/55112 and an issue with kludge
code in gen/genhostname.c were waiting for a bump before being addressed.

The bump occurred 2 months ago, is it too late to fix these issues?


On 09-Jan-2005 Stefan Farfeleder wrote:
> Maybe now the change should be done as libc was bumped two months ago?
> 
> 


Mike

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  Mike Heffner   <mheffner@[acm.]vt.edu>
                     <mikeh@FreeBSD.org>



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