svn commit: r295136 - in head: sys/kern sys/netinet sys/sys usr.bin/netstat

[Alfred Perlstein]

On 2/2/16 11:39 AM, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 02, 2016 05:57:59 AM Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>> Author: alfred
>> Date: Tue Feb  2 05:57:59 2016
>> New Revision: 295136
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/295136
>>
>> Log:
>>    Increase max allowed backlog for listen sockets
>>    from short to int.
>>    
>>    PR: 203922
>>    Submitted by: White Knight <white_knight at 2ch.net>
>>    MFC After: 4 weeks
> You do realize that this breaks the ABI of the sysctls used to fetch
> connection lists (and so will break existing binaries like ucd-snmpd, etc.)
> and thus can't be MFC'd right?
OK, I will not MFC it.

Is it worthwhile to extend the xsocket to have padding so that in 11.x 
and beyond we can allow for some changes in the structure?

Another idea I had was to include a version number with the sysctl 
request so that we can send back versioned structures, let me know what 
you think about that.

The first idea will take not more than a few days for me to accomplish, 
the second (versioning the sysctl) probably a few more days than that.

thanks,
-Alfred