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Date:      Wed, 1 Aug 2018 20:21:58 +0300
From:      Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>, Mark Johnston <markj@freebsd.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: COMPAT_43 users?
Message-ID:  <20180801172158.GT40119@kib.kiev.ua>
In-Reply-To: <20180801165026.GD99632@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net>
References:  <20180801155008.GC99632@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net> <201808011611.w71GB29F077911@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> <20180801165026.GD99632@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net>

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On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 04:50:26PM +0000, Brooks Davis wrote:
> It's absurd because there is no sensible, supported path to create new
> a.out binaries targeting FreeBSD 12.  IMO it would be better to limit
> a.out support to syscalls supported by releases where a.out was
> supported.

It requires somewhat non-trivial effort to limit them, while providing
the access is free.  We do not create new syscall table for each ABI
addition.



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