Serious compatibility breakage in -current.

Carl Shapiro carl.shapiro at gmail.com
Mon Dec 3 03:43:39 PST 2007


On Dec 3, 2007 1:27 AM, Kostik Belousov <kostikbel at gmail.com> wrote:
> The problem, as for now, is not with the POSIX-ing the signal delivered,
> that seems to be right. The ABI breakage introduced causes troubles.

Actually, the change fell short of POSIX compliance.  FreeBSD went
from one form of non-compliance to another.  It is nice that the
protection violation signal is consistent with the standard, but this
is not enough.  See Bakul's message earlier in the thread.


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