On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Brian Somers wrote:
> > I'm quite happy to DTRT(tm); I'm unsure that backing this change out
> > _is_ the right thing however. Can we discuss it some more first please?
>
> I think that getflags()/setflags() should stay where they are, but I
> can't comment on the namespace pollution issue. If/When the
> functions are renamed, they'll probably break make world again
> (because the new libc and old install will be there for a while), but
> to be honest, this *is* current.
>
> I think the issue to focus on is the function names.
I agree that folks should read current, and be able to do fixes. Do the
fix, though, in a way that *doesn't* require yet another fix later on, and
post the extraordinary steps clearly here, in a "HEADS-UP" mail that folks
will definitely see, and maybe stick something in UPDATING too?
At least, give everyone a fair chance, don't embed the fix as the end of a
1,000 words of context email, at the end of a long thread. That wouldn't
be fair. Not for extraordinary breakage.
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