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Date:      Wed, 7 Dec 2005 17:18:01 -0500 (EST)
From:      Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
To:        Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, cvs-src@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org, David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys signal.h
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.43.0512071714280.25588-100000@sea.ntplx.net>
In-Reply-To: <43975E4E.4060103@samsco.org>

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On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Scott Long wrote:

> John Baldwin wrote:
> >
> >
> > Even 6.x programs that use aio would be affected if 4.x ones were affected.  I
> > think aio is the only thing 6.x and earlier could be using though.
> >
>
> So will there be some sort of compatibility shims?  I bet that there
> will still be a lot of 4.x binaries being run on 7.0 systems in the
> future, just like 2.2.8 binaries were being run for years after 3.x and
> 4.x came out.

Yeah, and we can implement the shims in versioned libraries ;-)

<ducks and runs>




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