Warner Losh wrote:

> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Igor Robul writes:
> : On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 03:00:48PM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> : > Hi Poul,
> : >
> : > In revision 1.31 of src/sys/sys/user.h you have added new ki_layout field to
> : > kinfo_proc structure, but forgot to increase KINFO_PROC_SIZE  from 644 to 648.
> : > Please correct.
> : Why don't use sizeof() insead of hardcoding numbers?
>
> Because KINFO_PROC_SIZE is part of the ABI.  Changes to its size are
> always wrong, in that they break the ABI.  The checks are there to
> tell us when the ABI has been broken.

Well, we are now well informed about this, could we just fix sys/sys/user.h to match
relity (credit goes to phk for broking it and ignoring my posts completely)?

max@notebook$ dmesg | grep WARNING
WARNING: size of kinfo_proc (648) should be 644!!!
max@notebook$ uname -a
FreeBSD notebook 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #2: Tue Mar  6 15:34:23 EET 2001
root@notebook:/usr/src/sys/compile/NOTEBOOK  i386


-Maxim


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