From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Aug 3 3:23: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92B6737B8AE for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 03:22:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Received: from localhost (narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA09669; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 12:22:46 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee) Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 12:22:46 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: Andrzej Bialecki Cc: Marius Bendiksen , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: COMPAT_43 (Was:...) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Marius Bendiksen wrote: > > > > > I'm sure our friends in the embedded systems world would say yes. :) > > > For well-known set of applications you may want also to remove COMPAT_43. > > > > Which applications would this be? > > > > I've not found any description of this particular option anywhere, save > > for "don't remove it". > > I can't tell you exactl right now - I'm on vacation now, and I have only > my Nokia with me.. :) IIRC it has something to do with different tty > fields and disciplines - but you need to look into /sys/kern for details. > COMAT_43 used to be required to use xterm - maybe that's no longer so, haven't tried. It affects other things beyond ttys, though. > Andrzej Bialecki > > // WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) > // ------------------------------------------------------------------- > // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- > // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message