I have a very evil question.

Is someone ever going to document how all this works? Even a bad
document would be a good start. My experience with things like the
options(4) man page is that people will fix a bad man page, but won't
contribute anything unless there is something to fix.

Perry

Chris G. Demetriou writes:
> Matthias Drochner <drochner@zelux6.zel.kfa-juelich.de> writes:
> > Obviously nobody could imagine a use for it, so
> > it got lost in the NetBSD tree.
> 
> Not quite true.  There were known uses that some of us could think of,
> but the rest of the structures were changing enough that it seemed
> 'best' to just kill it until somebody actually wanted to reintroduce
> it to _use_ it.  (It wasn't clear exactly what it should be come in
> the new world order, so given that, better to kill it and add it back
> later than keep it in in a way that was inappropriate.)  At least,
> that was my take on it.
> 
> It wasn't being _used_ in NetBSD.
> 
> 
> cgd