Re: Death of KERN_JAVA_* sysctl
Nate Eldredge (nate@cartsys.com)
Sat, 10 Jul 1999 16:46:47 -0700
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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