Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 19:40:29 -0700 (PDT) From: dima@best.net (Dima Ruban) To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Cc: bde@zeta.org.au, dima@best.net, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FD_SETSIZE Message-ID: <199806050240.TAA15840@burka.rdy.com> In-Reply-To: <199806050132.LAA04655@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from Bruce Evans at "Jun 5, 98 11:32:25 am"
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Bruce Evans writes: > >> >> I didn't merge the kernel changes because they wouldn't have fixed a bug. > >> > > >> >Which one bug? Bug in select()? > >> > >> No bug. Never fix a working system. > > > >Well, I was under impression that it's not a bug fix, but rather an > >improvement :-) And there's nothing wrong with improving a working system. > > I actually follow a slightly different rule: never fix more than one > version of a working system :-). > > >Anyway, in lots of cases FD_SETSIZE defined to 256 is not enough. > >I thought, it would simply be smart to merge this change from > >-current, since it's been working over there for about a year now? > > The userland change would give incompatible libraries according to > `zgrep fd_set /usr/share/man/man3/*'. This didn't seem to cause any > problems in -current when the libc major wasn't bumped, but -stable > should be stabler. Grrr .... Right :-) Most definitely it will break libc_r and librpc (at very least). Well, I guess I'm outa luck. > > Bruce > -- dima To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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