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+Note to developers: bsd/, irix/ and solaris/ are NO LONGER PERTINENT!
+The relevant code was merged into src/ along with the linux/ subtree, so do
+your edits there.
+They exist only as reference in case the merge mucked up anything, they will
+be removed as soon as I can be sure that the code merge worked.
+
+ -- Jaq