From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jun 4 14:31:14 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E820A37B403 for ; Tue, 4 Jun 2002 14:31:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g54LUiDK025979; Tue, 4 Jun 2002 17:30:45 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g54LUijN025978; Tue, 4 Jun 2002 17:30:44 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 17:30:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200206042130.g54LUijN025978@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: Avoiding unnecessary breakage (was Re: Removing wait union) In-Reply-To: <20020604222022.6f935871.brian@Awfulhak.org> References: <200206041752.NAA08182@rodney.cnchost.com> Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Cc: arch@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 In article <20020604222022.6f935871.brian@Awfulhak.org> you write: >Many software vendors would say that a published interface can only be >removed after two major releases of the software. By that measure, `union wait' has been deprecated to the extent of not being documented for almost ten years. 4.4-Lite only documented the Standard interface. - -GAWollman -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE8/TGCI+eG6b7tlG4RAqxTAKCpGda3MrJR6m8VATZ+oUAgprKH6wCdELMC iX0jPsvMP3DFrG55eijw3tg= =si16 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message