Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 20:42:10 +1000 From: Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> Cc: marcel@xcllnt.net Subject: Re: COMPAT_43 tty processing ? Message-ID: <20040625104210.GA4762@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> In-Reply-To: <12549.1088158921@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <200406241859.54810.peter@wemm.org> <12549.1088158921@critter.freebsd.dk>
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On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 12:22:01PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <200406241859.54810.peter@wemm.org>, Peter Wemm writes: > >On Wednesday 23 June 2004 04:27 pm, David Schultz wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 21, 2004, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> > Do we need the COMPAT_43 tty processing in 5-STABLE ? > >> > >> FWIW, I used to run with COMPAT_43 disabled entirely. I think the > >> only breakage I noticed was that the Linuxolator didn't work > >> anymore because of a number of `#ifdef COMPAT_43's in the socket > >> code that linux.ko depends on. > > > >These should probably be broken out as COMPAT_OLDSOCK, whih is implied > >by the linuxulator or COMPAT_43 or the like. > > Or better yet: made unncessary in the linuxolator ? This is what NetBSD has done. At one stage I had patches derived from their code that removed the need for the COMPAT_43 socket functions, but COMPAT_43 was still necessary for ostat(), etc. Tim
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