cvs commit: src/sys/sys mbuf.h src/sys/kern uipc_mbuf.c uipc_syscalls.c src/usr.bin/netstat mbuf.c src/lib/libc/sys sendfile.2

Max Khon fjoe at samodelkin.net
Thu Jun 17 13:49:05 PDT 2004


Hi, Ken!

On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 02:45:18PM -0400, Ken Smith wrote:

> > > This will break scripts.
> > > 
> > > Please back out the netstat change.
> > 
> > No problems, but can you tell me which scripts or programs
> > has become broken after this change?
> 
> The scripts that are now potentially broken don't necessarily need to
> be in the base system.

I did not say that I am interested in base system scripts only :)

> They could very well be scripts Alfred wrote
> and uses himself for his own purposes.  Once a branch goes into -STABLE
> status we try to not make 'user-visible' changes to it unless they are
> bugfixes or do not alter the way something had worked.

As Bosko noted the change _adds_ a few lines to netstat -m output.
Old output is not altered.
Frankly speaking I can't imagine a script that could correctly parse
netstat -m output before, but now is broken.

/fjoe


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