Re: FreeBSD 1.1 under -current :-)

From: John Baldwin <jhb_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 12:36:09 -0500
On Friday 06 February 2004 04:22 am, Tim Robbins wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 12:37:30AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> [...]
>
> > apparrently programs in 1.1 can not handle that the PID can go past
> > 32767 now.. 'wait()' for example fails..
> >
> > ok , so recompile my kenrel with PID_MAX set to 30000
> > and try again..
> > all works fine..
> >
> > I'm tempted to make PID_MAX a tunable or a sysctl..
>
> I think FreeBSD 1.1 compatibility is obscure enough that there's no
> need for it to work in out of the box (i.e. GENERIC) at the cost of
> increased complexity in non-obscure configurations. Ideally, COMPAT_43
> would be broken up into COMPAT_43, COMPAT_FREEBSD[123], etc., removed
> from GENERIC and perhaps then we could define PID_MAX conditionally
> on these options or at least #error out.

He didn't say that he wanted to stick PIX_MAD in GENERIC, just that he wanted 
it tunable.

> > I think that some compatibility modes may have teh same problems
> > (though I doubt that many people use anything other than Linux
> > compatibility)
>
> As far as I know, only iBCS2 needs 16-bit bits. iBCS2 support would
> be more productive dead, as would our obviously unused and untested
> SVR4 support.

Actually, people do use the SVR4 support (we hear about it on re_at_ from time to 
time).

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Received on Fri Feb 06 2004 - 10:25:32 UTC

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