From owner-cvs-all Tue Jun 25 23: 6:24 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9314337B417; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 23:05:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id 59CB2AE2DB; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 23:05:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 23:05:54 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: David Greenman-Lawrence Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern uipc_syscalls.c Message-ID: <20020626060554.GZ53232@elvis.mu.org> References: <200206240642.g5O6gM327387@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020624011200.A6982@nexus.root.com> <20020624090931.GR53232@elvis.mu.org> <20020624101654.B6982@nexus.root.com> <20020624172702.GV53232@elvis.mu.org> <20020624104613.D6982@nexus.root.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020624104613.D6982@nexus.root.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * David Greenman-Lawrence [020624 10:49] wrote: > >> Actually, what I said was "Yes, this is going to require some backwords > >> compatibility gook before it is MFC'd."...and that was 6 months ago. It's > >> even more true today. > >> Of course this hurdle was the reason it was never MFCed. I'm just thinking > >> about how much of a pain this is going to be to deal with it on all of the > >> DTI servers and figure that other people will choke on it, too. > > > >Ok, then just tell me what to do and I'll do the grunt work. > > I don't have any experience trying to do this, but my understanding is > that the syscall would need to be deprecated and renamed something like > osendfile(). osendfile() just becomes a compatibility shim (presumably > subtracting the header length from nbytes) and then calls the new syscall. I plan on fixing this tomorrow (sorry for the lag), however I was wondering if libc_r will need any bandages? -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' Tax deductible donations for FreeBSD: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message