Re: August 2025 stabilization week

From: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2025 18:53:14 UTC 
On Mon, Aug 25, 2025 at 11:09:36AM -0500, Kyle Evans wrote:
K> > 4) The unfortunate coincidence with 3) is ABI breakage in the
K> > setgroups(2)/getgroups(2) syscalls compared to the July stabilization point.
K> > Some packages would dump core.  These packages need to be rebuilt.
K> 
K> This should be mitigated if you have COMPAT_FREEBSD14 enabled?  Old packages would
K> reference the old compat symbol versions in libc, which should use the COMPAT_FREEBSD14
K> variants of setgroups/getgroups.  If you have a pointer to scenarios where that isn't
K> the case, that'd be helpful- old packages should be fine in the GENERIC case.

You are correct. This affects only people who run custom kernels without
COMPAT_FREEBSD14.

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Gleb Smirnoff