Re: RFC: libkse*.a in 7.0



On Tuesday 11 December 2007 09:02:16 Alexander Leidinger wrote:
It's not running only old apps on a new system, it's running the  
userland of an old system in a jail of a new system. That's what I'm  
concerned about (and works currently as we took care about maintaining  
compatibility in the kernel) and that's what you can not handle with a  
library-based approach.

This is true. And this is very handy. Currently i am running 6.2
environment in a jail of BETA4 due to some incompatible vendor binary
files. Without of this support i have to go to mess of downgrade.

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