On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 07:34:54PM +0000, David Holland wrote: > By this same reasoning we should not have any binary compat code at > all. The only thing you've cited that's different about the freebsd > compat code is that it's out of date -- the proper response to that is > to update it. It's not like freebsd's syscall ABI is secret or > anything.
so, a more productive question: does anyone know whether updating the freebsd syscalls.master from the current FreeBSD ABI will break older FreeBSD binaries, like tw_cli? (I know they do care some about compat, more than the Linux world, but I don't know how much.) -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org