Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 10 Aug 2002 11:40:03 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: klibc development release |
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On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 01:27:36AM +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote: > How NetBSD handles the issue, I don't know. One interpretation > of what you say is that when a new architecture is added to NetBSD, > it will instantly inherit the entire historical set of syscalls, > including the obsolete ones.
netbsd puts all syscall code not needed by the current release under a per-version ifdef. A new port starting at, say 1.4, will never have this enabled (unless it has binary emulations that need parts of the old syscalls)
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