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Date:      Wed, 9 Sep 2020 13:08:23 -0500
From:      Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org>
Cc:        src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>,  svn-src-head <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r365506 - in head: include lib/libc/gen lib/libc/sys
Message-ID:  <CACNAnaF8_9ePZ6aaysU64=S2uo-7-TRBmc8zDBF%2BAe5fpy%2BPnw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Sep 9, 2020 at 1:07 PM Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> Author: kevans
> Date: Wed Sep  9 18:07:13 2020
> New Revision: 365506
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/365506
>
> Log:
>   getlogin_r: fix the type of len
>
>   getlogin_r is specified by POSIX to to take a size_t len, not int. Fix our
>   version to do the same, bump the symbol version due to ABI change and
>   provide compat.
>
>   This was reported to break compilation of Ruby 2.8.
>
>   Some discussion about the necessity of the ABI compat did take place in the
>   review. While many 64-bit platforms would likely be passing it in a 64-bit
>   register and zero-extended and thus, not notice ABI breakage, some do
>   sign-extend (e.g. mips).
>
>   PR:           247102
>   Submitted by: Bertram Scharpf <software@bertram-scharpf.de> (original)
>   Submitted by: cem (ABI compat)
>   MFC after:    1 week
>   Differential Revision:        https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26335
>

Argh, I dropped this =(:

Reviewed by: emaste, jhb, kib



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