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authorTodd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org>2001-05-17 17:50:57 +0000
committerTodd C. Miller <millert@cvs.openbsd.org>2001-05-17 17:50:57 +0000
commit8b1fe585a5fb2fbcd5ff5b6f2ddfb9abe2cc8661 (patch)
treec85407e8b68d7a3e7ec13decf133ad3159cfe6c6 /share/man/man4/options.4
parent13b0229101b697bf99398c2f8d57859552c4b211 (diff)
Add COMPAT_23 and COMPAT_25. Also mention COMPAT_NETBSD (which
should really has its own compat_netbsd(8) but does not).
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diff --git a/share/man/man4/options.4 b/share/man/man4/options.4
index 7db96622768..3a92eb1e766 100644
--- a/share/man/man4/options.4
+++ b/share/man/man4/options.4
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: options.4,v 1.64 2001/05/16 11:35:46 art Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: options.4,v 1.65 2001/05/17 17:50:56 millert Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: options.4,v 1.21 1997/06/25 03:13:00 thorpej Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1998 Theo de Raadt
@@ -54,6 +54,29 @@ options are passed to the compile process as
flags to the C compiler.
.Ss Compatibility Options
.Bl -ohang
+.It Cd option COMPAT_23
+Enables compatibility with
+.Ox 2.3 .
+This makes it possible to run binaries that use old versions of the
+.Xr msgctl 2 ,
+.Xr shmctl 2
+and
+.Xr __semctl
+system calls which changed semantics in
+.Ox 2.4 .
+.It Cd option COMPAT_25
+Enables compatibility with
+.Ox 2.5 .
+This makes it possible to run binaries that use old versions of the
+.Xr statfs 2 ,
+.Xr fstatfs 2
+and
+.Xr getfsstat 2
+system calls which were replaced in
+.Ox 2.6
+when
+.Li struct stat
+was expanded.
.It Cd option COMPAT_SVR4
On those architectures that support it, this enables binary
compatibility with
@@ -125,6 +148,13 @@ applications built for the same architecture.
This option is available on the i386 architecture.
See
.Xr compat_ibcs2 8 .
+.It Cd option COMPAT_NETBSD
+On those architectures that support it, this enables binary
+compatibility with
+.Em NetBSD
+applications built for the same architecture.
+See
+.Xr compat_freebsd 8 .
.It Cd option COMPAT_OSF1
On those architectures that support it, this enables binary
compatibility with
@@ -136,7 +166,7 @@ This option is available on the alpha architecture.
See
.Xr compat_osf1 8 .
.It Cd option COMPAT_NOMID
-Enable compatibility with a.out executables that lack a machine ID.
+Enables compatibility with a.out executables that lack a machine ID.
On the i386, this includes
.Nx
0.8's ZMAGIC format, 386BSD and BSDI's
@@ -504,7 +534,7 @@ This option is supported in the i386 architecture.
.It Cd option XSERVER
Support for X windows in the console driver.
.It Cd option LKM
-Enable support for loadable kernel modules.
+Enables support for loadable kernel modules.
See
.Xr lkm 4
for details.