Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:10:27 +0200 From: Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> To: Ian FREISLICH <ianf@clue.co.za> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu>, David Southwell <david@vizion2000.net>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Upcoming ABI Breakage in RELENG_7 Message-ID: <20080730151027.GJ99951@hoeg.nl> In-Reply-To: <E1KOCeF-0001Bi-Oo@clue.co.za> References: <200807300247.34948.david@vizion2000.net> <1217346345.12322.31.camel@bauer.cse.buffalo.edu> <E1KOCeF-0001Bi-Oo@clue.co.za>
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--SLfjTIIQuAzj8yil Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Ian FREISLICH <ianf@clue.co.za> wrote: > ABI breakage that Ken refers to here means that a change required > to fix a bug cannot be made while maintaining binary compatibility > with previous versions. Any program that makes use of (I'm guessing) > fcntl(2) or flock(2) that runs on 7.0, will not run on >=3D 7.1 without > being recompiled. Are you sure? I fcntl(2) and flock(2) will not change. Only some kernel space bits will. --=20 Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl> WWW: http://80386.nl/ --SLfjTIIQuAzj8yil Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkiQhGMACgkQ52SDGA2eCwUseACfeB7aWH1wrZwwjX7nccmZKXPs luMAnA5Ur8bMUyi6JsNFF3sGVwp9oLQi =Fyuq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --SLfjTIIQuAzj8yil--
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