> IMHO, it is cleaner to explicitly delete it once it becomes non-functional. > Having dead code lying around just slows down compilation and misleads > people into thinking that it is functional. If someone wants to resurrect > it at a later date, they can always retrieve it from the Attic. what makes 2.6 and 2.4 incompatible is the way they treat "pid". in 2.4 times pid is something unique to a process, ie. you cannot have two processes with the same pid. in 2.6 this changed pid is number processes can share and now tid is used as "unique identifier of a process". netchild commited patch which lets this happen and it makes getpid/getppid/exit_group quite expensive (I have to retrieve osrelease for a given jail and compare the string).Received on Fri Aug 18 2006 - 06:15:57 UTC
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