Upcoming ABI Breakage in RELENG_7

[Ian FREISLICH]

David Southwell wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 July 2008 07:27:27 Ian FREISLICH wrote:
> > ABI breakage that Ken refers to here means that a change required
> > to fix a bug cannot be made while maintaining binary compatibility
> > with previous versions.  Any program that makes use of (I'm guessing)
> > fcntl(2) or flock(2) that runs on 7.0, will not run on >= 7.1 without
> > being recompiled.
> 
> Thanks that is very concise and very helpful.
> 
> Question is what is the best way to determine which programs (if any) depend 
> upon fcntl or flock on a running system?

That will be just about anything that opens and locks files.  RDBMS,
editors, browsers, MTAs spring to mind.  This of course depends on
my initial guess being correct.

Ian

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