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Date:      Wed, 1 Aug 2018 18:04:27 +0000
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>
To:        Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>, "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:  <20180801180427.GA19860@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net>
In-Reply-To: <20180801172158.GT40119@kib.kiev.ua>
References:  <20180801155008.GC99632@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net> <201808011611.w71GB29F077911@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> <20180801165026.GD99632@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net> <20180801172158.GT40119@kib.kiev.ua>

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On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 08:21:58PM +0300, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> 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.
>=20
> 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.

My point was that (IMO) we should create a new syscall table to a.out to
let it subsume things like COMPAT_OLDSOCK.

-- Brooks

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