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OpenBSD was the slowest of the major BSD systems to switch. NetBSD made the change in 2009, it also preserves backward compatibility.
by rjsw 5y ago
OpenBSD was the slowest of the major BSD systems to switch. NetBSD made the change in 2009, it also preserves backward compatibility.
- mrweasel 5y agoI did not know that. The OpenBSD change just stuck in my head somehow. Any idea how NetBSD fixed the backward compatibility?
- mlyle 5y agoNetBSD provides a binary compatibility layer clear back to ancient NetBSD versions. If your NetBSD binary targeted a version before 6.0, it gets the compatibility stubs like http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/compat/time/compat_difftime.c?annotate=1.2 http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/lib/libc/compat/time...