Re: svr4, again

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <7fd8e657-dafb-1efc-0a23-762803589b92%m00nbsd.net@localhost>,
Maxime Villard  <max%m00nbsd.net@localhost> wrote:
>Should I re-start a fight about dropping COMPAT_SVR4? Because I keep finding
>bugs, and it's becoming tiring. Over time I've come across at least a good
>dozen of bugs in it, by just grepping through the tree searching for unrelated
>things. The last one is this [1], while working on kcov, exit1() is called but
>the proc mutex is not held.
>
>The thing is just broken beyond repair.
>
>It is dead wood that consumes APIs and makes stuff harder to change, just like
>the network components we (thankfully) retired.
>
>[1] https://nxr.netbsd.org/xref/src/sys/compat/svr4_32/svr4_32_signal.c#661

I would start by checking if anyone is using it. Can it still run Solaris
binaries? I have not used it in a decade or more...

christos