On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 07:05:00PM +0100, Maxime Villard wrote: > Le 13/02/2015 15:26, Greg Troxel a écrit : > > > > Maxime Villard <max%M00nBSD.net@localhost> writes: > > > >> Apparently, compat-FreeBSD is needed by tw_cli users. > >> > >> Therefore I think I will just disable it by default in the GENERIC kernels, > >> unless anyone disagrees. > > > > Our norms for significant changes are more or less about consensus or > > preponderance of opinion. So far you've said that you want to > > remove/disable this, and a number of people have said they use it. No > > one else has spoke up in favor of disabling. > > Perhaps because I am the only one who read the code? You said FreeBSD binaries crash. Obviously the one that is of interest for COMPAT_FREEBSD users doesn't, so in a way, who cares about the rest? Now, if there are security issues for the kernel, you'd definitely have a case. And there might very well be, but from your initial post it was more about the receiving end of COMPAT_FREEBSD. -- Quentin Garnier - cube%cubidou.net@localhost "See the look on my face from staying too long in one place [...] every time the morning breaks I know I'm closer to falling" KT Tunstall, Saving My Face, Drastic Fantastic, 2007.
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