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

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

The following reply was made to PR lib/58266; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Christos Zoulas <christos%zoulas.com@localhost>
To: Collin Funk <collin.funk1%gmail.com@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost,
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Subject: Re: PR/58266 CVS commit: src/sys/kern
Date: Sun, 19 May 2024 17:41:47 -0400

 >=20
 > 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.
 >=20
 > Also what does "rev=E2=80=99d 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=20
 (for newly compiled binaries) by versioning the system call.
 See versioningsyscalls(9).
 
 christos