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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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>Various BSDs.  I chose not to implement a backwards compatibility interface
>as I'd have to allocate even more space to make it as efficient as the new
>one and updating client code is easy to do.  It's a small price to pay for

Wouldn't using the old interface for everything and hashing on (ftn,
arg) in untimeout() be efficient enough?  I think it takes less space
than now - clients wouldn't need space for cookies.

Bruce