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Date:      Tue, 19 Mar 2002 08:43:54 +1100 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>, <standards@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Garrett's POSIX versions patch for review
Message-ID:  <20020319083700.B2957-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020318021728.D56122@espresso.q9media.com>

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On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Mike Barcroft wrote:

> I ran into a little bit of trouble when testing this.  Specifically,
> NOTES/LINT includes _KPOSIX_VERSION as an option.  This conflicts with
> the ability to define _KPOSIX_VERSION in <sys/cdefs.h>.
>
> Does _KPOSIX_VERSION have any use as a kernel option?  It would seem
> to me that, in order to run a FreeBSD system at a different POSIX
> version than the one the system was designed to run at would require
> more than just a kernel configuration change.  So, this define as a
> kernel option doesn't really buy us anything.

I agree with removing it.  Only a similar compile-time option for the
whole system would make sense.  Too many options gives you namespace
problems just for detemirmining the relevant options.

Bruce


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