On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:47:34 +0200, David Southwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
On Tuesday 29 July 2008 08:45:45 Ken Smith wrote:
Normally the FreeBSD Project tries very hard to avoid ABI breakage in
"Stable Branches". However occasionally the fix for a bug can not be
implemented without ABI breakage, and it is decided that the fix
warrants the impact of the ABI breakage. We have one of those
situations coming along for RELENG_7 (what will become FreeBSD 7.1).
The ABI breakage should only impact kernel modules that are not part of
the baseline system (those will be patched by the MFC) which deal with
advisory locks. As such the impact should not cause many people
problems.
The work that will be MFCed fixes issues with filesystem advisory locks,
and moves the advisory locks list from filesystem-private data
structures into the vnode structure.
The MFC will be done by Kostantin Belousov some time this coming Friday
(August 1st, 2008) if you have concerns and want to watch for it.
Thanks.
Sometimes information gets posted to this list on the assumption that
everyone
understand what the writer means.
This is one of those occasions!!
For those of us who are not as well informed and experienced as others
could
someone please explain what is meant by an ABI breakage, its
implications
and how to deal with them.
Thanks
David
Googling for ABI gives me this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_binary_interface
That is part of what you want to know.
Ronald.
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