24 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-archsome PRs| From | Sent On | Attachments |
|---|---|---|
| Nicolas Souchu | Jul 16, 2004 1:08 pm | |
| Mark Linimon | Jul 16, 2004 2:33 pm | |
| Nicolas Souchu | Jul 16, 2004 2:51 pm | |
| David O'Brien | Jul 17, 2004 8:15 pm | |
| Robert Millan | Jul 18, 2004 6:33 am | |
| Bruce M Simpson | Jul 18, 2004 8:07 am | |
| Giorgos Keramidas | Jul 18, 2004 9:31 am | |
| Robert Millan | Jul 18, 2004 9:35 am | |
| Robert Millan | Jul 18, 2004 9:51 am | |
| Kris Kennaway | Jul 18, 2004 10:51 am | |
| Pawel Jakub Dawidek | Jul 18, 2004 11:39 am | |
| M. Warner Losh | Jul 18, 2004 11:59 pm | |
| Pawel Jakub Dawidek | Jul 19, 2004 1:17 am | |
| M. Warner Losh | Jul 19, 2004 7:23 am | |
| Max Laier | Jul 19, 2004 9:57 am | |
| Nicolas Souchu | Jul 20, 2004 3:23 pm | |
| Sergey Babkin | Jul 26, 2004 4:49 pm | |
| Giorgos Keramidas | Jul 26, 2004 8:29 pm | |
| Giorgos Keramidas | Jul 26, 2004 8:35 pm | |
| Peter Jeremy | Jul 27, 2004 1:44 am | |
| Sergey Babkin | Jul 27, 2004 9:37 am | |
| Sergey Babkin | Jul 27, 2004 9:37 am | |
| Pawel Jakub Dawidek | Jul 27, 2004 9:52 am | |
| Garance A Drosihn | Jul 27, 2004 10:39 am |
| Subject: | some PRs | |
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| From: | Robert Millan (zera...@wanadoo.es) | |
| Date: | Jul 18, 2004 9:51:24 am | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-arch | |
On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 06:16:49PM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
On 2004-07-18 15:33, Robert Millan <zera...@wanadoo.es> wrote:
I think it's useful for compatibility.
In general, I'm not against compatibility. However, what's the end of this route? To create one special device node in /dev for every possible errno value? :-(
I don't claim that /dev/full is useful just for the sake of it. Your argument (that having a device just for each errno value is silly) is something I basicaly agree with.
But if some applications depend on it, it's still helpful for portability. I don't know what support for native compatibility is expected or planned for FreeBSD, but I know you have a Ports Collection with thousands of packages, and this might minimaly reduce the work of your port maintainers. IMHO, you should ask the people working in the Ports Collection for their opinion before taking a decision.
(Note this patch comes from the context of the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD porting effort, in which we port Debian GNU/Linux packages, which are a bit more likely to introduce Linuxisms than the average candidate for FreeBSD Ports. Thus, our requirements might differ somewhat.)
-- Robert Millan
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