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Date:      Thu, 1 Jan 2015 20:49:47 -0800
From:      Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>
To:        Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>
Cc:        FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>, Chris Watson <bsdunix44@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: COMPAT_FREEBSD8 [was: Re: IPSec and racoon issue...]
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On Thu, Jan 1, 2015 at 8:17 PM, Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> wrote:

> On Thu, 1 Jan 2015 19:09:44 -0800, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
>  > On Jan 1, 2015, at 6:59 PM, Chris Watson <bsdunix44@gmail.com> wrote:
>  >
>  > > I didn't even think to check
>  > > the kernel. I kept looking at everything else, src, UPDATING,
> commits, etc.
>  >
>  >      sysctl kern.conftxt
>  >
>  > is worth memorizing.
>
> Off your topic, but to aid memorising this, looking at mine on:
> FreeBSD x200.smithi.id.au 9.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 9.3-PRERELEASE #0: Fri
> Nov 14 18:41:59 EST 2014 root@x200.smithi.id.au:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> amd64
>
> options COMPAT_FREEBSD7
> options COMPAT_FREEBSD6
> options COMPAT_FREEBSD5
> options COMPAT_FREEBSD4
> options COMPAT_FREEBSD32
>
> Should I be surprised to find no COMPAT_FREEBSD8 ?
>
> cheers, Ian
>

Thanks to the magic of symbol versioning, I don't think there has a
COMPAT_FREEBSD8 or COMPAT_FREEBSD9. With luck and care, there should never
be one again.
--
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com



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