On Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 09:28:20AM +0200, Toomas Soome via illumos-developer wrote:
> So it seems all this os is about running 20 years old stuff, while others are > running modern things. really, no wonder why linux is killing everything else > - people need to go on, not to be stuck with sunos 4. You're not "stuck with sunos 4". I can't even tell if you're trolling; you're smart enough to know better. Nothing you build today will use this functionality. In fact, nothing you build today *can* use it. And the functionality that today's software uses is not in any way being held back by the existence of this legacy support code. Some people might want you to imagine that it is, but it isn't. It's a red herring. > this compatibility has become trap for illumos - and it really did not happen > today. That's completely false. There is no trap. Unless you have a SunOS 4.x binary you wish to run, you will never be affected by this code in any way. And if you do, then it provides you the benefit of being able to run it. That's all. It's not in your way. It's not holding up "modernisation" work. It's not harming illumos at all, except when people demand that we remove perfectly good code that's harming no one and then everyone has to waste their weekend explaining why that's a waste of time that helps no one and potentially does harm. The best way to harm illumos is to waste our time. It's the people insisting that this code be removed that are doing the harm, not the presence of the code. I'd bet you and half the other contributors to this thread didn't even know this code existed until now, and for good reason: it's never been in your way and never will. ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
