Re: klibc development release

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Sat, Aug 10, 2002 at 01:27:36AM +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote:
>   How NetBSD handles the issue, I don't know.   One interpretation
>   of what you say is that when a new architecture is added to NetBSD,
>   it will instantly inherit the entire historical set of syscalls,
>   including the obsolete ones.

netbsd puts all syscall code not needed by the current release under a
per-version ifdef.  A new port starting at, say 1.4, will never have
this enabled (unless it has binary emulations that need parts of the
old syscalls)