Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 10 Jul 1999 16:46:47 -0700 | From | Nate Eldredge <> | Subject | Re: Death of KERN_JAVA_* sysctl |
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Matthew Wilcox wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 10, 1999 at 03:43:33PM -0700, Nate Eldredge wrote: > > Oh, clarification-- I meant, anything that uses KERN_JAVA_* will break. > > Use of the other constants still has no problems. > > That's fine then. Java support was marked as `obsolete' in 2.2 and > will be removed for 2.4. I'm not quite sure why anyone bothered to > remove the constants -- I don't see that it really harms us to leave > them in.
I'm not complaining that Java support was removed, but I do think that the constants should have been left in. That way a program can deal with it at runtime (sysctl will fail) instead of not being able to compile. --
Nate Eldredge nate@cartsys.com
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