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From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, John Baldwin wrote:

> Then only rename it in 4.x We can do an API change for 5.0.  We'll be
> renaming syscall2() back to syscall() in 5.0 for example.  We don't
> want to end up with syscall47() someday in FreeBSD 67.2. :-P

And what happens to apps using the previous syscall(2) interface? They
die horribly?  That's not acceptable.

Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu     |  www.FreeBSD.org



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