Subject: re: g/c mountcompatnames[] ?
To: Nathan J. Williams <nathanw@MIT.EDU>
From: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/28/2001 17:16:28
> On the other hand, I must ask a question in all seriousness.
> How much 0.9/4.3BSD legacy stuff do we really need to hang on to?
All of it.
That's what backwards compatilibity is about, and I hope that we take
that seriously.
yup. COMPAT_43 means, among other things, that <sgtty.h> works. for
BSD, that's pretty important. i know that xterm until at least recently
was still using <sgtty.h> on NetBSD. also, note that, eg, COMPAT_SUNOS
depends on part of COMPAT_09.