Re: Removal of compat-FreeBSD

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Feb 07, 2015 at 12:19:36PM +0100, Maxime Villard wrote:
> Hi,
> I intend to remove the compat-FreeBSD support from the system.

please don't, I'm using it.

> 
> It has a limited interest since no major proprietary software is developed on
> FreeBSD; if one were, it would certainly be available on Linux, and we have full
> compatibility support for that.
> 
> You will also notice, after reading the code a bit, that our FreeBSD layer is
> really poor: many syscalls are missing, the translation is not efficient, and
> the layer is only available on i386. Recent FreeBSD-10 binaries often crash.
> 
> Recently we found two enormous bugs so obvious and harmful that we should
> normally have received a bug report from a user somewhere. We didn't, which
> means that in 6 years nobody tested compat-FreeBSD - "nobody" being the
> developers and the users.

I use a freebsd binary daily, on a netbsd-6 host.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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