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Re: svr4, again



On Mon, Dec 17, 2018 at 02:57:54PM +0100, Maxime Villard wrote:
> Should I re-start a fight about dropping COMPAT_SVR4? Because I keep finding
> bugs, and it's becoming tiring. Over time I've come across at least a good
> dozen of bugs in it, by just grepping through the tree searching for unrelated
> things. The last one is this [1], while working on kcov, exit1() is called but
> the proc mutex is not held.
> 
> The thing is just broken beyond repair.
> 
> It is dead wood that consumes APIs and makes stuff harder to change, just like
> the network components we (thankfully) retired.
> 
> [1] https://nxr.netbsd.org/xref/src/sys/compat/svr4_32/svr4_32_signal.c#661

+1 for removing compat


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