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Date:      Mon, 12 Feb 2001 17:11:50 -0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
Cc:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>, John Indra <john@office.naver.co.id>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Patch for FILE problems (was Re: -CURRENT is bad for me...) 
Message-ID:  <200102130111.f1D1BpU56116@mobile.wemm.org>
In-Reply-To: <200102130052.f1D0qFW33330@harmony.village.org> 

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Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <xzplmrbo1b2.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes:
> : Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> writes:
> : > I'd rather see this patch, or something similar, than bump the major
> : > version again.  We can phase in a better way to obviate the need to do
> : > this in the future.
> : 
> : Brian Feldman, Peter Wemm, David O'Brien and myself have been
> : discussing possible solutions on IRC for the past two hours. Peter
> : will likely commit a patch sometime soon.
> 
> If there's something better than Daniel's solution that doesn't
> require a major bump and is compatible with the old libc.so.5 api,
> then I'm all for that.  I'd love to test it out as well if there's any
> desire for that.

Do you really want to carry the baggage for the entire 5.0-RELEASE and
5-STABLE branch?  Just because of a pedantic policy point?

Personally, I think that sucks. :-(

Cheers,
-Peter
--
Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au
"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5



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