Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
Rui Paulo <rpa...@freebsd.org> writes:
Carlos A. M. dos Santos <unixma...@gmail.com> writes:
COMPAT_FREEBSD32 is an unfortunate choice. It can be easily
interpreted as "compatible with FreeBSD 3.2". Something like
"COMPAT_32BIT" would be more meaningful.
This is unlikely to be changed and emailing the committer who provided
valuable time on this code wastes his time and everyone else's.
The committer who provided valuable time on this code was warned that
COMPAT_FREEBSD32 was probably the worst imaginable option and that it
would set off a bikeshed.
DES
This name was picked for the following reasons, after discussion with
several others: it is analogous to the existing COMPAT_LINUX32, the
directory containing the relevant support code lives in
/sys/compat/freebsd32, it is almost entirely specific to running 32-bit
FreeBSD binaries, and it is a descriptive name. I also think it
extremely unlikely that given the choice of interepretations "FreeBSD
3.2", "32-bit FreeBSD", "FreeBSD version 32" (which, at our current
rate, will be released in 2058, probably before Linux 3.2), anyone will
fail to pick the correct meaning, especially given that it is documented
and accompanied by a comment.
-Nathan
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