Removal of the 6.x kernel compat code from libc

[Warner Losh]

> On Apr 21, 2015, at 12:05 AM, olli hauer <ohauer at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> On April 19, 2015 8:56:10 PM CEST, Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 03:07:43PM +0200, Stefan Esser wrote:
>>> I doubt that anybody relies on non-POSIX behaviour that has been
>>> deprecated for some 15 years ...
>> 
>> Any sin that's ever been committed is probably still referenced by
>> some
>> damned port or other :-)
>> 
>> That's still no reason to keep them, of course; I'm just pointing out
>> that you're taunting Murphy.
>> 
>> mcl
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> One potential issue are the official vmware tools, thry still require. compat6 …

This is the libc side (running FreeBSD 11 binaries on a FreeBSD 6 kernel),
not the kernel side, which is what vmware tools need…

Warner


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