Re: HEADSUP: ibcs2 and svr4 compat headed for history

From: Poul-Henning Kamp (phk_at_phk.freebsd.dk)
Date: 06/29/04

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    To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 10:28:28 +0200

    In message <40DF2607.5020409@mac.com>, Chuck Swiger writes:

    >In other words, I care quite a bit about how "working, supported
    >functionality" gets transitioned to "no longer available". I'm not happy with
    >the notion of "supported" -> "HEADS UP" -> one week -> gone.

    I don't think anybody would be happy with that, and that is not what
    was proposed in this case.

    The future of ibcs2 and svr4 has been in doubt for a long time (and
    still is pending developer attention), but appearantly most of the
    previous discussion and warnings have not been noticed:

            critter phk> cvs -R annotate files.i386 | grep SVR4

            Annotations for files.i386
            ***************
            1.413 (peter 20-Aug-02): warning "COMPAT_SVR4 is broken and should be avoided"

    Searching the major mailing lists (bugs, stable, current etc) failed
    to return any hits about this. 

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