From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 4 10:44:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA12986 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 4 Nov 1996 10:44:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from Rigel.orionsys.com (root@rigel.orionsys.com [205.148.224.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA12969 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 1996 10:44:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dbabler@localhost) by Rigel.orionsys.com (8.7.6/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA02210; Mon, 4 Nov 1996 10:44:39 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 10:44:39 -0800 (PST) From: Dave Babler To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Kernel tty problem In-Reply-To: <9145.847076478@time.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 3 Nov 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > previous version, I'd been paring down things I didn't think I needed and > > optimizing. One of the options I took out was COMPAT_43. The new version > > >From /sys/i386/conf/LINT, which you probably should really become > familiar with before hacking on your kernel config again: > > ##################################################################### > # COMPATIBILITY OPTIONS > > # > # Implement system calls compatible with 4.3BSD and older versions of > # FreeBSD. You probably do NOT want to remove this as much current code > # still relies on the 4.3 emulation. > # > options "COMPAT_43" Yes, I can only plead temporary insanity when I blithely commented it out and then forgot about it. Even the "Running FreeBSD" book says to leave it in or "things may behave strangely"... sure did. On the bright side, I now know what at least *some* of those "strange things" are. -Dave