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Date:      Wed, 15 Nov 2000 13:49:39 -0700
From:      Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
To:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: libc shlib version 
Message-ID:  <200011152049.NAA58842@harmony.village.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Nov 2000 12:44:45 PST." <20001115124445.A32318@dragon.nuxi.com> 
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In message <20001115124445.A32318@dragon.nuxi.com> "David O'Brien" writes:
: On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 12:21:02AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
: > Maybe I'm crazy, but can't we find and kill the API change that caused
: > this and back it out for 4.x?  I suspect it was the per interface stat
: > changes in the network code, but I could very well be wrong.
: 
: We should not, the API change was one allowed by the way we bump shared
: version numbers.  Rather than deal with this single case, we should
: consider the issue in the large.

This makes it harder to deal with mixed environments, but not hugely
so.  I'm thinking that if is just one thing, and it happened recently,
it would be less pain to back out the API change.  We're not supposed
to have major libc bumps in -stable.  If it is a bunch of changes or
if the changes happened a long time ago, then we have no choice but to
fix the problem now and how the "window" isn't too disruptive.

: > These sorts of things aren't supposed to impact libc at all.  Do we
: > know which one caused the problem?
: 
: Sure they are.  We can add syscalls,etc al. utill the cows come home and
: not bump the version number.

I can't tell, but it looks like we're agreeing here.

Warner


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