From owner-freebsd-current Sun Nov 10 19:54: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB6C637B401 for ; Sun, 10 Nov 2002 19:54:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2400943E6E for ; Sun, 10 Nov 2002 19:54:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id gAB3s1pk047998; Sun, 10 Nov 2002 20:54:04 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2002 20:53:40 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20021110.205340.48499499.imp@bsdimp.com> To: sheldonh@starjuice.net Cc: eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [PATCH] note the __sF change in src/UPDATING From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20021109104527.GD347@starjuice.net> References: <20021108.142609.112624839.imp@bsdimp.com> <20021109104527.GD347@starjuice.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message: <20021109104527.GD347@starjuice.net> Sheldon Hearn writes: : If the final word on this whole issue is "You can't run binaries : compiled for 4.x-RELEASE on 5.x-RELEASE" then we should start puckering : up. : : Developers tend to remember these things and you don't have to screw : them too many times before they remove FreeBSD downloads from their web : sites and replace them with a brief message explaining that "We don't : have time to cope with FreeBSD's disregard for backward compatibility." : : At that point, whining about how they shouldn't have been fiddling with : these symbols in the first place is bound to be a fruitless exercise. This is why I put __sF back, and made sure that 4.x had the right 'forward compatible' libraries. It is also why I backported the __std{in,out,err}p symbols. I hope that minor incompatibility within a minor release is offset by __sF not being referencede by any more libraries. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message