From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 1 2:18:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E82E14E2F for ; Fri, 1 Oct 1999 02:18:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p10-dn02kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [210.163.200.107]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with ESMTP id SAA23762; Fri, 1 Oct 1999 18:18:38 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <37F40993.E982C180@newsguy.com> Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 10:08:35 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John-Mark Gurney Cc: sobomax@altavista.net, Marcel Moolenaar , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: sigset_t changes committed References: <37F23064.98EEBC67@scc.nl> <37F36496.523EF7F5@altavista.net> <37F36E39.C6849F10@altavista.net> <19990930101814.62251@hydrogen.fircrest.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John-Mark Gurney wrote: > > hmmm.. that might be an option of providing a kld that emulates the new > syscalls on an older kernel... I would want the patch to be available > for staticly linking into the kernel though.. I don't like LKM/KLD's on > servers that are suppose to be rock solid... (at least not yet) It coulod be part of the TOOLS section of world. Install a kld for the purpose of buildworld and use it. It would prevent people from building world on machines with securelevel >= 2, though, and that's bad. Nevertheless, since this particular target would only be compiled to deal with this kind of nasty changes, and would not be required most of the time, it sounds reasonable to me. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org Rule 69: Do unto other's code as you'd have it do unto yours To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message