Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 12:13:48 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, bp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Remove non-FreeBSD code from fs's Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0111051213110.61562-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.011105121004.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, John Baldwin wrote: > Would there be any objection to removing all the non-FreeBSD code (such as the > #ifdef NetBSD stuff) from hpfs, smbfs, nwfs, and the like? We have already > drastically broken compatibility with other BSD's by replacing simple locks > with mutexes and the KSE changes. When I talked to Julian about this in > regards to the KSE changes, he said that NetBSD wasn't using the same versions > of the files and had already removed all the non-NetBSD stuff from their > versions. At this point the non-FreeBSD code has bitrotted and serves to > obfuscate more than anything else. Comments? The person to really talk to would of course be Boris. > > -- > > John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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