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From: Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org>
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: COMPAT_43 tty processing ?
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On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 12:22:01PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> In message <200406241859.54810.peter@wemm.org>, Peter Wemm writes:
> >On Wednesday 23 June 2004 04:27 pm, David Schultz wrote:
> >> On Mon, Jun 21, 2004, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> >> > Do we need the COMPAT_43 tty processing in 5-STABLE ?
> >>
> >> FWIW, I used to run with COMPAT_43 disabled entirely.  I think the
> >> only breakage I noticed was that the Linuxolator didn't work
> >> anymore because of a number of `#ifdef COMPAT_43's in the socket
> >> code that linux.ko depends on.
> >
> >These should probably be broken out as COMPAT_OLDSOCK, whih is implied 
> >by the linuxulator or COMPAT_43 or the like.
> 
> Or better yet: made unncessary in the linuxolator ?

This is what NetBSD has done. At one stage I had patches derived from
their code that removed the need for the COMPAT_43 socket functions,
but COMPAT_43 was still necessary for ostat(), etc.


Tim