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Re: <sys/user.h> removal



Every software needing NetBSD <sys/user.h> content is already broken.

This file was in the state of being to-be-purged parts since day0
"initial import of 386bsd-0.1 sources".

On 10.06.2017 20:48, John Hawkinson wrote:
> I don't think there is any real advantage to removing the file,
> breaking existing software that #includes it, for no particular reason
> other than some idea of cleanliness. It just makes it harder and
> harder for software to support NetBSD (not that there is a lot of
> software including <sys/user.h> as far as I know).
> 
> Make the include file empty, sure. But removing it breaks 3rd party
> software needlessly, and perhaps not commensurate with our market share.
> 
> --jhawk
> 
> Kamil Rytarowski <n54%gmx.com@localhost> wrote on Sat, 10 Jun 2017
> at 14:27:19 +0200 in <2cf99ff1-ad04-74b6-7328-0cd445e35ebf%gmx.com@localhost>:
> 
>> I propose to drop <sys/user.h> in the early phase of 8.99.x. There is
>> already no maintained release that uses this header in a correct way.
>>
>> <sys/user.h> is dead since 2011 (pre-6.0 times), killing traditional
>> uarea began long time ago at least in 1995 when mycroft killed PT_READ_U
>> and PT_WRITE_U.


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