Re: The time has come for a kernel interfacing library layer

["Thomas E. Spanjaard" <tgen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthew Dillon wrote:
>      Older static
>     binaries are going to be more of a problem since they cannot be 
>     retrofitted.

So those are supposedly doomed for COMPAT_*. I happened to ran into a 
relevant issue just a few hours ago, with a program that expected 
FreeBSD3 signal handlers in place (and possibly more, but it dumped core 
before I could get further :)). For a moment I thought this would be the 
answer, but I guess I have to keep hacking at the semi closed source 
software (which is multiplatform, but has none of the inherent 
structural organization and splitting of MD code... sigh... and they use 
Gnu autoconf as well!) until they accept my patch :).

Cheers,
		-- Thomas E. Spanjaard
		   tgen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

p.s.
Sorry for the rant.