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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: HEADS UP: at_shutdown going away
In-Reply-To: <199908190737.AAA04137@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Aug 19, 1999 00:37:20 am"
To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith)
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 11:14:20 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer)
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Mike Smith writes:
> I will be converting all users of at_shutdown in the kernel to the new 
> mechanism, but it's of some concern to me that there may be external 
> code using the old at_shutdown* interfaces that may benefit from a 
> compatibility interface (which could be done relatively easily).
> 
> Is there significant interest in having this implemented?

We (ie, Whistle) has some "external code" that uses at_shutdown
but it would be trivial to update it for the new interface, so I
say go ahead! This sounds like a good change.

-Archie

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