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Re: CVS commit: src




> On Jul 31, 2023, at 3:11 PM, matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost> wrote:
> 
>> Don't call versioned stuff "old". Follow the naming convention for versioning
>> and name them after the last version of the OS they appeared on.
> 
> won't this break, eg, external sanitizer consumers?  please restore the
> old names.  they're public and should remain public.

Who are the external sanitizer consumers? Nothing uses those things; they
are there for binary compatibility. Nothing should be referring to those names.
I had to look in the CVS logs to find out the last version of NetBSD that they
were used in order to figure out what to call them. I even don't understand
why the sanitizers have them (we should probably delete them so that they are
not a maintenance hassle). It is not like someone will compile new code that will
use the old ioctls?!?!? So how are they useful in a sanitizer context?

The next step is to move them to compat/ so that they don't litter the standard
headers and code. This is simply ancient compat stuff that was written before we had
better ways to do things.

christos

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