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From: Alfred Perlstein <alfred@FreeBSD.ORG>
To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/stdio findfp.c
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* Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> [021031 23:17] wrote:
> 
> > Overall, I think we do fairly well.  There have been three major API
> > breakages that I can think of:  a.out -> ELF, the sigset_t changes
> > and these __sF changes.
> 
> ... but apart from these changes they (current applications) often do
> run on old kernels unless they are very system-specific.  The a.out
> -> ELF incompatibilities and maybe the sigset_t changes were unavoidable,
> but the others are mostly just from poor organization.

I'm not sure I understand the importance of all of this honestly but
I don't think anyone would object if options were added to make.conf
to conditionalize __sF and the signal stuff, the default being the
current settings though.

-Alfred

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