Re: Upcoming ABI Breakage in RELENG_7

From: Ed Schouten <ed_at_80386.nl>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:10:27 +0200
* Ian FREISLICH <ianf_at_clue.co.za> wrote:
> ABI breakage that Ken refers to here means that a change required
> to fix a bug cannot be made while maintaining binary compatibility
> with previous versions.  Any program that makes use of (I'm guessing)
> fcntl(2) or flock(2) that runs on 7.0, will not run on >= 7.1 without
> being recompiled.

Are you sure? I fcntl(2) and flock(2) will not change. Only some kernel
space bits will.

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 Ed Schouten <ed_at_80386.nl>
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Received on Wed Jul 30 2008 - 13:10:28 UTC

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