Re: Removal of compat-FreeBSD

[Maxime Villard <max%M00nBSD.net@localhost>]

Le 07/02/2015 12:51, Manuel Bouyer a écrit :
> 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.
> 

I guess it's an old binary then?