From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 02:27:42 -0400 To: rminnich@gmail.com, 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <62c0dde05800ea93317896e1676d7362@brasstown.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: References: <7b91c25159e2f83bbf6632726c978d2d@kw.quanstro.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] syscall tracing: errstr Topicbox-Message-UUID: afb6ffbe-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Mon Aug 27 00:11:25 EDT 2012, rminnich@gmail.com wrote: > People occasionally pull old binaries from the archive and they still > run. I think it'd be nice if they could still be traced as well as > still run. >=20 > If a syscall is supported, then it should be possible to trace it. that sounds good as a slogan, but the pre 9p2000 calls were depricated about a decade ago. i can't think of reasons to support them. it just l= eads to dead and untested code, which threatens to persists for all time, like= ttys. =E2=98=BA it's surprising how much junk code i removed from *nix* which was there to support calls depricated before nix ever ran a up. compatability is good. but too much of a good thing=E2=80=94that's usual= ly a different story. - erik