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Date:      Tue, 4 Jun 2002 14:09:57 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Removing wait union
Message-ID:  <20020604140957.A63493@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020603190818.E16166@espresso.q9media.com>; from mike@FreeBSD.ORG on Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 07:08:18PM -0400
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On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 07:08:18PM -0400, Mike Barcroft wrote:
> Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> writes:
> > On Sun, 2 Jun 2002, Mike Barcroft wrote:
> >=20
> > > Does anyone have any objections to removing the deprecated 4.2/4.3BSD
> > > wait union in <sys/wait.h>?  It's been deprecating since Rev 1.1 and
> > > there are only a few consumers in the base system.  Attached are two
> > > patches, one to removing it from <sys/wait.h> and the other to remove
> > > its consumers.  Changes to lpd(8) sent directly to its maintainer.
> >=20
> > I think the only potential problem is use of the compatibility cruft
> > in deprecware outside the base system.  It would be useful to have a
> > quick way to determine how many ports a change in a standard header
> > affects.
>=20
> Kris is going to do a test run of the ports build for me.

19 ports failed, and 3152+465 port builds were attempted.  Assuming
the same percentage of the rest will fail that comes to around 36
ports failing out of 7000 in the collection.

I'd be happy with the patch going in as long as someone commits to
fixing them.

Kris

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