Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2002 16:11:14 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> Cc: brian@Awfulhak.org, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Avoiding unnecessary breakage (was Re: Removing wait union) Message-ID: <3CFD4912.26C043B@mindspring.com> References: <200206041752.NAA08182@rodney.cnchost.com> <p05111724b922b2b4d44b@[128.113.24.47]> <200206042130.g54LUijN025978@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Garrett Wollman wrote: > In article <20020604222022.6f935871.brian@Awfulhak.org> you write: > >Many software vendors would say that a published interface can only be > >removed after two major releases of the software. > > By that measure, `union wait' has been deprecated to the extent of not > being documented for almost ten years. 4.4-Lite only documented the > Standard interface. I think tha it has not been published that it was deprecated, and that Brian's point is not being taken correctly here. Saying that somthing is not going to be there in the future is very different fron not saying that it will be. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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