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Date:      Fri, 5 Jul 2013 08:32:06 -0700
From:      Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To:        Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Jonathan Anderson <jonathan@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: buildkernel is broken
Message-ID:  <20130705153206.GA85816@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20130705130338.GD67810@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20130703003535.GA69779@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20130703004650.GA69868@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <F89E331CBC7E42AA8CDC113DC75F5B97@FreeBSD.org> <20130703034516.GA70409@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20130705130338.GD67810@FreeBSD.org>

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On Fri, Jul 05, 2013 at 05:03:38PM +0400, Gleb Smirnoff wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 08:45:16PM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:
> S> On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 10:51:57PM -0230, Jonathan Anderson wrote:
> S> > On Tuesday, 2 July 2013 at 22:16, Steve Kargl wrote:
> S> > > It seems that
> S> > > 
> S> > > # Enable FreeBSD7 compatibility syscalls
> S> > > options COMPAT_FREEBSD7
> S> > > 
> S> > > is required in a kernel config file. If it is mandatory to
> S> > > have this option on FreeBSD 10, it may be appropriate to
> S> > > expand the comment to
> S> > > 
> S> > > 
> S> > > # Enable FreeBSD7 compatibility syscalls
> S> > > # This option is MANDATORY. Do not remove.
> S> > > options COMPAT_FREEBSD7
> S> > 
> S> > So... a non-optional option?
> S> 
> S> Yes, it appears to be that way.
> 
> Not really. It is required only if you also got COMPAT_43, the
> pre-FreeBSD compat option.
> 

So, it's essentially non-optional as the comment above COMPAT_43
is

#
# Implement system calls compatible with 4.3BSD and older versions of
# FreeBSD.  You probably do NOT want to remove this as much current code
# still relies on the 4.3 emulation.


Is "do NOT want to remove" too strong of a statement?

-- 
Steve



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