Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 10:28:28 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: ibcs2 and svr4 compat headed for history Message-ID: <34706.1088497708@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 27 Jun 2004 15:54:47 EDT." <40DF2607.5020409@mac.com>
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In message <40DF2607.5020409@mac.com>, Chuck Swiger writes: >In other words, I care quite a bit about how "working, supported >functionality" gets transitioned to "no longer available". I'm not happy with >the notion of "supported" -> "HEADS UP" -> one week -> gone. I don't think anybody would be happy with that, and that is not what was proposed in this case. The future of ibcs2 and svr4 has been in doubt for a long time (and still is pending developer attention), but appearantly most of the previous discussion and warnings have not been noticed: critter phk> cvs -R annotate files.i386 | grep SVR4 Annotations for files.i386 *************** 1.413 (peter 20-Aug-02): warning "COMPAT_SVR4 is broken and should be avoided" Searching the major mailing lists (bugs, stable, current etc) failed to return any hits about this. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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