From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Sep 26 14:26:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA20403 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 14:26:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.119.24.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA20396 for ; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 14:26:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA26084; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 23:26:25 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id XAA16914; Sat, 26 Sep 1998 23:26:23 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19980926232622.55098@follo.net> Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 23:26:22 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: Studded , The Subject: Re: COMPAT_43 References: <360D4E83.8B656BC9@dal.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <360D4E83.8B656BC9@dal.net>; from Studded on Sat, Sep 26, 1998 at 01:28:51PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Sep 26, 1998 at 01:28:51PM -0700, Studded wrote: > I'm curious as to whether/how much the COMPAT_43 option is still needed > in a modern system. Before someone says, "Why don't you take it out and > find out for yourself?" I would be glad to do that and report the > results (after the release of course) if someone could state with > reasonable assurance that most things would still work. :) Most things would still work. Eivind, who ran for 3-4 months without COMPAT_43, and found that the only causality was innocen^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hthe Linux emulator. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message