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Date:      Thu, 15 Jun 2006 17:20:49 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Beech Rintoul <beech@alaskaparadise.com>
Cc:        Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org, Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@leidinger.net>
Subject:   Re: HEADS-UP: removed COMPAT_43 from GENERIC (and other configs)
Message-ID:  <20060615212048.GA72318@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <200606151259.57929.beech@alaskaparadise.com>
References:  <3223.1150403817@critter.freebsd.dk> <200606151259.57929.beech@alaskaparadise.com>

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On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 12:59:38PM -0800, Beech Rintoul wrote:
> On Thursday 15 June 2006 12:36, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> > In message <4491C2F0.6000007@rogers.com>, Mike Jakubik writes:
> > >What about COMPAT_43TTY? Is this still needed, how exactly does it
> > >affect the system?
> >
> > It adds a bunch of ancient-compatible ioctls to the kernel.
> >
> > It is, as a principle, not needed, but thanks to the many variants
> > of "sh configure" employed in usr/ports, a quite large number of
> > ports go "Ohh, this is BSD, I'd better use the old ioctls" and
> > break if you don't offer them.
>=20
> Is there a way to easily identify these ports? I've had both lines commen=
ted=20
> out of my kernel configs for some time and haven't seen any port breakage=
 on=20
> either 6.x or -current.

I did a full build for phk some time ago, I don't remember how many
broke but it was enough to make it a significant (but perhaps not
difficult) task to fix them.

Kris

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