From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 18 5:36:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gaia.euronet.nl (gaia.euronet.nl [194.134.0.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CDAB157AA; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 05:36:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@scc.nl) Received: from mail.scc.nl (i045.ztm.euronet.nl [194.134.112.46]) by gaia.euronet.nl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA23216; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 14:36:45 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from scc.nl (scones.sup.scc.nl [192.168.2.4]) by mail.scc.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA36528; Wed, 18 Aug 1999 14:36:39 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marcel@scc.nl) Message-ID: <37BAA8D7.AB05707C@scc.nl> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 14:36:39 +0200 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: SCC vof X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Wemm Cc: alk@pobox.com, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: linux emulation in 3.2 current References: <19990818112448.6CD241C99@overcee.netplex.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Wemm wrote: > > Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > Anthony Kimball wrote: > > > > > > Quoth Marcel Moolenaar on Tue, 17 August: > > > : > > > : For starters, COMPAT_LINUX is obsoleted. Use the linux module. > > > : > > > > > > Does obsoleted mean desupported? In STABLE? > > > > Yes. COMPAT_LINUX disappeared 3 years ago. The reason that you can still > > use it is because it reappeared for the purpose of compiling LINT (IIRC). > > The fact that it still can be used to actually built a working kernel is > > *not* deliberate, but more a question of "luck". > > No, support is very explicit for it: The matter has been explained to me by bde. I am (or was) mistaken on multiple grounds. The pointy hat's here, in case someone else needs it :-/ -- Marcel Moolenaar mailto:marcel@scc.nl SCC Internetworking & Databases http://www.scc.nl/ Amsterdam, The Netherlands tel: +31 20 4200655 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message