svn commit: r314373 - in head: . etc/defaults etc/rc.d lib/libc/regex share/man/man4/man4.i386 share/man/man5 sys/amd64/conf sys/boot/forth sys/compat/svr4 sys/conf sys/dev/streams sys/i386/conf sy...

Gleb Smirnoff glebius at FreeBSD.org
Tue Feb 28 19:20:49 UTC 2017


On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 09:47:32AM -0800, John Baldwin wrote:
J> On Tuesday, February 28, 2017 05:14:43 AM Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
J> > Author: glebius
J> > Date: Tue Feb 28 05:14:42 2017
J> > New Revision: 314373
J> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/314373
J> > 
J> > Log:
J> >   Remove SVR4 (System V Release 4) binary compatibility support.
J> >   
J> >   UNIX System V Release 4 is operating system released in 1988. It ceased
J> >   to exist in early 2000-s.
J> 
J> Thanks.  Is there any socket code we kept just for streams support that
J> we can now remove as well?

I didn't notice any.

Somewhat unrelated: there is COMPAT_OLDSOCK, which I'd be happy to remove
as well. The rationale is the same: there are huge concerns that the code
actually works, and wasn't broken during decades.

-- 
Totus tuus, Glebius.


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