[haiku-commits] Re: r37976 - haiku/trunk/docs/user
- From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:12:12 +0200
On 2010-08-08 at 21:17:34 [+0200], Adrien Destugues
<pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Huh? Haiku's network API's are supposed to be binary compatible with
> > both.
> > The POSIX API should definitely be. I haven't really followed
> > Philippe's
> > network kit changes, but I don't see a reason why backwards binary
> > compatibility cannot be provided.
>
> This page is about source compatibility only. It's stated at the top of
> the page before the list, so I didn't repeat it.
I don't recall how the page was intended originally (if it was just called
"Compatibility" then probably not source-compatibility specific only). The
header speaks of examples for keeping binary while breaking source
compatibility, but there are several items in the list already, that refer
to binary compatibility changes, too.
At any rate, the network kit item is not accurate. It sounds like we
rewrote the complete API, but at least in the commit log I don't see any
mention of incompatibilities. Though I seem to recall there was an issue
regarding BNetBuffer::{Size,BytesRemaining}(), but, if so, that should be
referred to explicitly. I also don't see what UNIX sockets have to do with
that.
CU, Ingo
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