Removal of the 6.x kernel compat code from libc

olli hauer ohauer at gmx.de
Tue Apr 21 06:21:32 UTC 2015


On April 21, 2015 8:07:47 AM CEST, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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

Ah,OK
Thanks for clarification! 


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