Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2017 10:04:45 -0600 From: Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> To: Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org>, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: deorbiting /usr/lib/libstand.a, moving to sysboot Message-ID: <1507565085.77958.3.camel@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <23C4A573-05A7-4D76-9179-19169ECAB570@FreeBSD.org> References: <CANCZdfrvD04cL3A1J3nKZ2uFNNkOrcVnMvobdoyXkRGx8VK8Vg@mail.gmail.com> <23C4A573-05A7-4D76-9179-19169ECAB570@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mon, 2017-10-09 at 17:57 +0200, Dimitry Andric wrote: > On 9 Oct 2017, at 07:45, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: > > > > > > I'd like to deorbit /usr/lib/stand.a and /usr/include/stand.h. These are > > really parts of the boot loader with an unstable API and shouldn't be > > installed into the system. It's really a private library to the boot loader. > Though I completely agree with this, I am still interested in the > historical reasons for separating out this library for general userland > consumption. Were there any other parts of world that happened to use > libstand? > > -Dimitry > There are out-of-tree users of libstand. Perhaps not many, but a couple times after doing something to libstand I've received emails from people that thanked me for the enhancement and mentioned some non- loader(8) use of the lib in passing. (Unfortunately, I can't find any of those mails now, they were from 2-3 years ago.) -- Ian
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