On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Jarom=EDr Dolecek wrote:

> I though about this one a bit more and agree that what I proposed
> is not a good thing. It's pointless to break backward compatibility
> needlessly.
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> The way it could be done to address my concern and still retain
> backwards compatibility could be as this:
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> Keep the compat option, but make the vfs_sysctl() use array defined
> with CTL_VFS_NAMES, instead of using mountcompatnames[]. I'd leave
> only filesystems supported by NetBSD 0.9 and 4.3BSD on the
> mountcompatnames[] list, and make the variable static. The array
> contents would be freezed and not to be changed past that moment.
> The array itself would be only defined #ifdef COMPAT_09 || COMPAT_43,
> and be static. CTL_VFS_NAMES would get new entries if one adds
> a filesystem which supports sysctl, old entries would be kept of course. =
=20
>=20
> This way the backwards compatibility would be retained, and
> the issue I had with this is solved too.
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> Opinions?

Sounds good.

Take care,

Bill