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Kamil Rytarowski wrote:
>This removal is a part of a larger synchronization with other BSDs as
>we lack various features in sys/queue.h (like LIST_PREV()).
>
>CIRCLEQ was already deleted from the documentation and disabled in the
>kernel in NetBSD-7. If there are still any unaware
This removal is a part of a larger synchronization with other BSDs as
we lack various features in sys/queue.h (like LIST_PREV()).
CIRCLEQ was already deleted from the documentation and disabled in the
kernel in NetBSD-7. If there are still any unaware users, they are
certainly long broken.
>>> Remove the CIRCLEQ API completely from the system headers and
>>> document this fact in the QUEUE(3) man-page.
>> why? queue.h may be used by more than src.
>> i don't see any benefit except forcing working code to be changed,
>> possibly introducing bugs.
>> please leave it alone.
> It's
Everything relatively modern that uses sys/queue.h directly was
already switched a long time ago to TAILQ.
Christos Zoulas changed most users of CIRCLEQ in the src tree 6 years
ago. The last leftover is handled in this patchset.
I was able to find some 3rd projects using CIRCLEQ, but probably
On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 01:23:15PM +1100, matthew green wrote:
> > Switch the last user (ypserv) from CIRCLEQ to TAILQ.
> > This is inspired by analogous refactoring from OpenBSD:
> >
Kamil Rytarowski writes:
> Switch the last user (ypserv) from CIRCLEQ to TAILQ.
> This is inspired by analogous refactoring from OpenBSD:
> https://github.com/openbsd/src/commit/d53c0cf4d32fdbd8b42debfba068f1b0efa423dc#diff-8d0a4fbb89658213ebf314ff188581d7
>
> Remove the CIRCLEQ API completely
