Re: PR/58266 CVS commit: src/sys/kern

[Christos Zoulas <christos%zoulas.com@localhost>]

> 
> Thank you for looking into this. I still think that it would be nice
> for NetBSD to behave like the other implementations. But backwards
> compatability is an issue.
> 
> Also what does "rev’d the system call." mean?
> Sorry, I am not very familiar with NetBSD or CVS so it is probably a
> silly question.

Provide both the old (for already existing binaries) and the new behavior 
(for newly compiled binaries) by versioning the system call.
See versioningsyscalls(9).

christos