From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jun 4 16:12: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6767437B401 for ; Tue, 4 Jun 2002 16:11:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pool0092.cvx40-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([216.244.42.92] helo=mindspring.com) by gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17FNSt-0007UT-00; Tue, 04 Jun 2002 16:11:47 -0700 Message-ID: <3CFD4912.26C043B@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2002 16:11:14 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Garrett Wollman Cc: brian@Awfulhak.org, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Avoiding unnecessary breakage (was Re: Removing wait union) References: <200206041752.NAA08182@rodney.cnchost.com> <200206042130.g54LUijN025978@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Garrett Wollman wrote: > 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. I think tha it has not been published that it was deprecated, and that Brian's point is not being taken correctly here. Saying that somthing is not going to be there in the future is very different fron not saying that it will be. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message