From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Jan 4 01:52:40 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id BAA26196 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 01:52:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA26169 Thu, 4 Jan 1996 01:52:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA23086; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 10:51:35 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA21131; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 10:51:26 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.3/8.6.9) id KAA10648; Thu, 4 Jan 1996 10:30:58 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199601040930.KAA10648@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: COMPAT_43 ... what breaks? To: jmb@freebsd.org (Jonathan M. Bresler) Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 10:30:57 +0100 (MET) Cc: peterb@telerama.lm.com, chat@freebsd.org Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at Jan 3, 96 07:06:36 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk As Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > > On Wed, 3 Jan 1996, Peter Berger wrote: > > > So just what -will- break if you compile a kernel without COMPAT_43? > > Inquiring minds want to know. > > chucky's heart ? Most things will work fine. Only minor things like getty will fail, since they still use sgtty-style terminal controls. :-] (Unfortunately, it's a bit hard to log into the system without a working getty. :-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)