In article <7fd8e657-dafb-1efc-0a23-762803589...@m00nbsd.net>, Maxime Villard <m...@m00nbsd.net> wrote: >Should I re-start a fight about dropping COMPAT_SVR4? Because I keep finding >bugs, and it's becoming tiring. Over time I've come across at least a good >dozen of bugs in it, by just grepping through the tree searching for unrelated >things. The last one is this [1], while working on kcov, exit1() is called but >the proc mutex is not held. > >The thing is just broken beyond repair. > >It is dead wood that consumes APIs and makes stuff harder to change, just like >the network components we (thankfully) retired. > >[1] https://nxr.netbsd.org/xref/src/sys/compat/svr4_32/svr4_32_signal.c#661
I would start by checking if anyone is using it. Can it still run Solaris binaries? I have not used it in a decade or more... christos
