Re: Firefox on NetBSD

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost>]

> On May 24, 2024, at 11:00 PM, Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 10:50:42PM +0100, Robert Swindells wrote:
>> I just made the mistake of updating my userland without rebuilding the
>> kernel and it wouldn't boot, got a "bad syscall" error when init was
>> trying to run /etc/rc. It does boot with a new kernel.
> 
> Yes, I hit the same - and it is just a case of the requirement to never
> run new userland with old kernel.
> 
> The dup3() syscall changed, but new kernel implements full compat for the
> old one. However, anything in userland using dup3 will now crash with
> new userland and old kernel.

Christos maybe forgot to add a compat stub in libc?

-- thorpej