From owner-freebsd-standards Thu Mar 21 19:21:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org Received: from espresso.q9media.com (espresso.q9media.com [216.254.138.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5136A37B41B for ; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 19:21:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mike@localhost) by espresso.q9media.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2M3FXW19188; Thu, 21 Mar 2002 22:15:33 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike) Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 22:15:33 -0500 From: Mike Barcroft To: Peter Dufault Cc: Garrett Wollman , standards@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Garrett's POSIX versions patch for review Message-ID: <20020321221533.B80338@espresso.q9media.com> References: <20020226.224449.28794535.imp@village.org> <20020227184645.K47808-100000@gamplex.bde.org> <20020227144359.R31007@espresso.q9media.com> <20020318021728.D56122@espresso.q9media.com> <200203181926.g2IJQEo33811@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20020320161625.A5344@hda.hda.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020320161625.A5344@hda.hda.com>; from dufault@hda.hda.com on Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 04:16:25PM -0500 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Sender: owner-freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Dufault writes: > It was to build the kernel with newer interfaces and test them > by occasionally setting user-space _POSIX_VERSION into the "future", > leaving _POSIX_VERSION at the release. It seemed like a good idea > at the time, as bumping _POSIX_VERSION in general seemed > likely to autoconf in things you don't expect. Why don't we make the sysctl that it controls writable? This will allow developers the ability to test new POSIX features without recompiling their kernels. Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-standards" in the body of the message