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Date:      Mon, 14 Aug 2000 07:23:24 -0500
From:      Mike Pritchard <mpp@mppsystems.com>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kern/20572: cannot safely remove COMPAT_43 from the kernel config
Message-ID:  <20000814072324.B75372@mppsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <200008141210.FAA59539@freefall.freebsd.org>; from sheldonh@uunet.co.za on Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 05:10:02AM -0700
References:  <200008141210.FAA59539@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 05:10:02AM -0700, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR kern/20572; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
> From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
> To: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au>
> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
> Subject: Re: kern/20572: cannot safely remove COMPAT_43 from the kernel config 
> Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 14:06:04 +0200
> 
>  On Mon, 14 Aug 2000 21:56:51 +1000, Darren Reed wrote:
>  
>  > I think the email from Mike (just recently) explained the situation - there
>  > has been a "problem" created by changes to the signal code.
>  
>  If that's all that's standing in the way of COMPAT_43 becoming
>  optional, then you should assign the PR to marcel, who'll probably have
>  it sorted out in short order.
>  
>  I must admit, my impression was that this would take a lot of work to
>  fix and that it wasn't a simple case of correcting one area of the
>  kernel.

I was using COMPAT_43 to squeeze every last byte out of a couple of
old 486 machines with very little memory.  Marcel's signal changes
broke that.  I told him about it, and he said he was working on it.
That was quite a while ago.  

Now, for COMPAT_43 being totally optional...dunno.  I'm sure if
I actually used those two machine for development/porting/whatnot,
I might run into problems.  For what I used them for, it works fine.
E.g. if I lose the harddisk on either machine, I just reinstall.  They
are just there for testing purposes.

-Mike
-- 
Mike Pritchard
mpp@FreeBSD.org or mpp@mppsystems.com


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