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Date:      Sun, 18 Jun 2006 03:43:16 -0500
From:      linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon)
To:        Divacky Roman <xdivac02@stud.fit.vutbr.cz>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: HEADS-UP: removed COMPAT_43 from GENERIC (and other configs)
Message-ID:  <20060618084316.GB10891@soaustin.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060618084016.GA44510@stud.fit.vutbr.cz>
References:  <3223.1150403817@critter.freebsd.dk> <200606151259.57929.beech@alaskaparadise.com> <20060615212048.GA72318@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060616062841.GA2193@haakonia.hitnet.RWTH-Aachen.DE> <20060616084538.69fki90ri8wk8kcg@netchild.homeip.net> <20060616151931.GA42934@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060617083156.GA84611@stud.fit.vutbr.cz> <20060617084626.GA20327@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060618084016.GA44510@stud.fit.vutbr.cz>

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On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 10:40:16AM +0200, Divacky Roman wrote:
> well.. you can never be sure but my point stands still - COMPAT_43TTY is
> basically a bunch of tty-related ioctls so I dont see why apps like (gtar
> which doesnt touch tty at all) should fail..

"shouldn't" and "won't" are rarely equal in software engineering,
expecially when dealing with crufty old code that probably included
*.h "just in case".

mcl



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