Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 11:32:13 -0500 From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: Peter Berger <peterb@telerama.lm.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: COMPAT_43 ... what breaks? Message-ID: <9601031632.AA24392@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.960103100031.13067A-100000@ivory.lm.com> References: <Pine.BSI.3.91.960103100031.13067A-100000@ivory.lm.com>
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<<On Wed, 3 Jan 1996 10:01:56 -0500 (EST), Peter Berger <peterb@telerama.lm.com> said: > So just what -will- break if you compile a kernel without COMPAT_43? > Inquiring minds want to know. Anything that uses the old-style (sgtty) terminal driver. Most of the other bits of code conditioned on COMPAT_43 are binary compatibility with 4.3 system calls for Suns and VAXen, and really could be done without for i386es, since those 4.3 system calls were never used on the i386 platform (having been superseded before the i386 port was done). -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant
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