Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 11:08:55 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>, Andrew Thompson <thompsa@freebsd.org>, "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>, Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: Where is thr_getscheduler Message-ID: <200608041108.56969.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20060804050242.GC58082@funkthat.com> References: <20060801204501.GA19647@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20060802172505.GA1935@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20060804050242.GC58082@funkthat.com>
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On Friday 04 August 2006 01:02, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > Steve Kargl wrote this message on Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 10:25 -0700: > > Almost everything on a FreeBSD system depends on libc. Bumping > > its version number without careful coordination of bumping all > > other version numbers is full of landmines. Falling back of the > > retort "this is -current expect problesm" just glosses over what > > appears to be sloppy planning. > > Ummm.. don't we have have symbol versioning? isn't this exactly > what symbol versioning is for? I haven't been following this > particular discussion, but I thought now that we have symbol versioning > in the tree that we never have to bump the numbers? or is this failure > to have a proper document to tell someone what to do when they change > the API and provide the correct hooks for the new versions? 1) It's not on by default. 2) Once it is turned on by default, we will have to do one last bump to bootstrap into using symbol versioning for future ABI changes. -- John Baldwin
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