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Re: CVS commit: src/sys



On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 04:32:33PM +0200, Antti Kantee wrote:
> [...]
> What would break if the routing socket wouldn't support old message types?
> If it's just a handful of system utilities, I don't think upgrading the
> whole system is an unreasonable requirement.  It's not like the compat
> is perfect even now, though we might want to claim it to be.

It's perfect enough to run a 5.0_BETA kernel on -4 or -3 userland. This
is how my 3 workstations are running for some weeks now.
I don't think supporting old routing messages format add that much code,
isn't it ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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