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Date:      Fri, 01 Oct 1999 20:43:39 +0200
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: new sigset_t and upgrading: a proposal
Message-ID:  <37F500DB.C33AC10@scc.nl>
References:  <37F337CC.5E06911B@scc.nl> <xzp7ll7cmsh.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> 
> How about this: early in make world, we check whether or not the
> current kernel supports the new syscalls. If it does, good. If it
> doesn't, we build and load a small module which installs syscalls
> which translate the sigset_t stuff into something the old syscalls can
> grok. Does that make sense to any of you guys?

That has been proposed by someone (sorry, I can't remember who exactly).
We still need a consensus as to what we should do. Personally, I now
like to fix this at the core of the problem: truly support
cross-compilations. This implies (IMO) that the source tree is never
used to build the tools with which a world is built (ideally). Such a
solution may take too long to be implemented to be used as a solution
now, though.

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