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Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com>,
	John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, cvs-src@freebsd.org,
	cvs-all@freebsd.org, David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys signal.h
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On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Scott Long wrote:

> John Baldwin wrote:
> >
> >
> > Even 6.x programs that use aio would be affected if 4.x ones were affected.  I
> > think aio is the only thing 6.x and earlier could be using though.
> >
>
> So will there be some sort of compatibility shims?  I bet that there
> will still be a lot of 4.x binaries being run on 7.0 systems in the
> future, just like 2.2.8 binaries were being run for years after 3.x and
> 4.x came out.

Yeah, and we can implement the shims in versioned libraries ;-)

<ducks and runs>