Re: klibc development release

From: Christoph Hellwig (hch@infradead.org)
Date: Sat Aug 10 2002 - 05:40:03 EST


On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 01:27:36AM +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote:
> How NetBSD handles the issue, I don't know. One interpretation
> of what you say is that when a new architecture is added to NetBSD,
> it will instantly inherit the entire historical set of syscalls,
> including the obsolete ones.

netbsd puts all syscall code not needed by the current release under a
per-version ifdef. A new port starting at, say 1.4, will never have
this enabled (unless it has binary emulations that need parts of the
old syscalls)

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