Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 13:39:56 +0900 From: Makoto Matsushita <matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> To: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: eaccess(2) breaks execution of 4.x binaries on 5.x Message-ID: <20020313133956E.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020312225739.36618F-100000@fledge.watson.org> References: <20020312191211.A78611@xor.obsecurity.org> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020312225739.36618F-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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rwatson> Certainly we can MFC eaccess(), but that's not going to make rwatson> the problem go away. Fundamentally our model is backward rwatson> compatibility, not forward compatibility. We need to build rwatson> 5.0 packages on 5.0. That's why I build FreeBSD 5-current snapshots on a 5-current box. Note that we have already experienced such a situation before (at least in September 1999, sigset_t change). -- - Makoto `MAR' Matsushita To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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