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Date:      Wed, 3 Jan 1996 11:32:13 -0500
From:      "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Peter Berger <peterb@telerama.lm.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   COMPAT_43 ... what breaks?
Message-ID:  <9601031632.AA24392@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.960103100031.13067A-100000@ivory.lm.com>
References:  <Pine.BSI.3.91.960103100031.13067A-100000@ivory.lm.com>

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<<On Wed, 3 Jan 1996 10:01:56 -0500 (EST), Peter Berger <peterb@telerama.lm.com> said:

> So just what -will- break if you compile a kernel without COMPAT_43?  
> Inquiring minds want to know.

Anything that uses the old-style (sgtty) terminal driver.

Most of the other bits of code conditioned on COMPAT_43 are binary
compatibility with 4.3 system calls for Suns and VAXen, and really
could be done without for i386es, since those 4.3 system calls were
never used on the i386 platform (having been superseded before the
i386 port was done).

-GAWollman

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