Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 15:03:00 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Threading/KSE problem Message-ID: <20050920190300.GA94596@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.43.0509201446510.9634-100000@sea.ntplx.net> References: <433058CB.60807@samsco.org> <Pine.GSO.4.43.0509201446510.9634-100000@sea.ntplx.net>
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--azLHFNyN32YCQGCU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 02:55:50PM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote: > On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Scott Long wrote: >=20 > > Daniel Eischen wrote: > > > > > > Sure, symbol versioning would be great to have, but I still don't > > > know why library versions are bumped when they don't need to be. > > > It's like we've thrown up our hands and said "Something has changed > > > in one or more of the libraries, and we don't know how this affects > > > other libraries, so we're going to bump them all." Speaking for > > > the thread libraries, they were not users of any of the changed > > > ABIs -- there was no reason to bump them. > > > > > > > We have a very strong history of making changes in our base libraries > > that have very unintended consequences. >=20 > And as far as I can recall, we have ironed them all out in -current > before any release. >=20 > > Try running the Java binaries > > for 4.x, the only ones that we are certified to distribute, on 5.x or > > 6.x. >=20 > Why? Do they not work with the compat libraries installed? No, they're completely useless thesedays except on 4.x. Kris --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDMFzjWry0BWjoQKURAqhDAKCPnzQBN/qGPBlgyDCQFGA9YR4KtQCdHhhZ yjQgVouydtaIEpORllBv8yA= =hReb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU--
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