Subject: Re: semctl(2) changes
To: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: current-users
Date: 01/31/2000 13:29:25
On Mon, Jan 31, 2000 at 01:25:21PM -0500, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> On Jan 31,  1:18pm, tls@rek.tjls.com (Thor Lancelot Simon) wrote:
> -- Subject: Re: semctl(2) changes
> 
> | I think this is a mistake, because it doesn't take into account the
> | literally thousands of copies of 1.4M kicking around out there on Comdex
> | Snapshot CDs.
> | 
> | For example, 50 of Bill's and my students at Stevens Tech have this
> | installed on their machines (as do all the machines in my lab) and we
> | handed out Many copies at various trade shows -- at least a thousand.
> 
> Could be, but can you name 1 (one) statically linked binary that uses
> semctl(2)?

Off the top of my head, no.  On the other hand, I can think of _plenty_
of moderately clueless NetBSD users who are likely to upgrade only their
kernels and be very confused when 1.4M packages they've built or acquired
stop working.

-- 
Thor Lancelot Simon	                                      tls@rek.tjls.com
	"And where do all these highways go, now that we are free?"