On Mon Aug 27 00:11:25 EDT 2012, rminn...@gmail.com wrote: > People occasionally pull old binaries from the archive and they still > run. I think it'd be nice if they could still be traced as well as > still run. > > If a syscall is supported, then it should be possible to trace it.
that sounds good as a slogan, but the pre 9p2000 calls were depricated about a decade ago. i can't think of reasons to support them. it just leads to dead and untested code, which threatens to persists for all time, like ttys. ☺ it's surprising how much junk code i removed from *nix* which was there to support calls depricated before nix ever ran a up. compatability is good. but too much of a good thing—that's usually a different story. - erik
