Re: Missing compat_43 stuff for netbsd32?

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Tue, 11 Sep 2018, Maxime Villard wrote:

> Le 11/09/2018 à 09:46, Paul Goyette a écrit :
> > While working on the compat code, I noticed that there are a few old
> > syscalls which are defined in syc/compat/netbsd323/syscalls.master
> > with a type of COMPAT_43, yet there does not exist any compat_netbsd32
> > implementation as far as I can see...
> >
> >      #64    ogetpagesize
> >      #84    owait
> >      #89    ogetdtablesize
> >      #108    osigvec
> >      #142    ogethostid (interestingly, there _is_ an implementation
> >              for osethostid!)
> >      #149    oquota
> >
> > Does any of this really matter?  Should we attempt to implement them?
>
> This would be silly. If no one noticed they weren't there, then it likely
> means no one has ever used them; and if so, then we shouldn't add them - ie
> we shouldn't introduce new entry points in the kernel. I mean we are in
> 2018.

Sounds good to me.

Is there any problem/issue with leaving the type field set to COMPAT_43
rather than UNIMPL or OBSOL ?


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