Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 00:41:43 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: ibcs2 and svr4 compat headed for history Message-ID: <12024.1088548903@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 29 Jun 2004 13:10:52 EDT." <46A7D8A4-C9EF-11D8-99F8-003065ABFD92@mac.com>
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In message <46A7D8A4-C9EF-11D8-99F8-003065ABFD92@mac.com>, Charles Swiger write s: >> 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: >[ ...cvs annotate... ] >> Searching the major mailing lists (bugs, stable, current etc) failed >> to return any hits about this. > >End-users may not read /usr/src/UPDATING or the published release notes >either, but at least those are the places they are _expected_ to look >at if they want to know what is changing. I don't think we can >reasonably expect an end-user to look though the output of "cvs >annotate"... :-) The warning would appear if you tried to config a kernel containing COMPAT_SVR4, and since there is no email, I conclude that nobody who cared about COMPAT_SVR4 (in -current) has done that since the message was added. -- 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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