From: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
To: Kris Van Hees <kris.van.hees@oracle.com>,
dtrace@lists.linux.dev, dtrace-devel@oss.oracle.com
Subject: Re: [DTrace-devel] [PATCH 4/4] options: discontinue -xversion=V as a valid option
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2025 17:16:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ff893add-3a3d-4acb-9770-c3ab0d9dd424@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DS0PR10MB752231FDE310C37F66EEEB83C2ABA@DS0PR10MB7522.namprd10.prod.outlook.com>
On 17/12/2025 05:10, Kris Van Hees via DTrace-devel wrote:
> DTrace allowed setting a previous version to operate in compatibility
> mode. Unfortunately, it was not fully implemented. Translators are
> not really versioned, and if a translator uses an identifier that does
> not exist in the version specified in -xversion=V, data structures end
> up corrupted.
>
> Since the usefulness of -xversion=V seems to be less than the effort
> needed to rectify the implementation, we are no longer supporting this
> option.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kris Van Hees <kris.van.hees@oracle.com>
wow, never even noticed this existed!
Reviewed-by: Alan Maguire <alan.maguire@oracle.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-12-18 17:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-12-17 5:10 [PATCH 4/4] options: discontinue -xversion=V as a valid option Kris Van Hees
2025-12-18 17:16 ` Alan Maguire [this message]
2025-12-18 20:22 ` Eugene Loh
2025-12-18 20:24 ` Kris Van Hees
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