From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 15 21:43:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9703F37B401; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 21:43:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1E6B43E6A; Tue, 15 Oct 2002 21:43:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.12.4/8.12.4) with SMTP id g9G4h5Oo095614; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 00:43:05 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 00:43:05 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: "Danny J. Zerkel" Cc: Maxim Sobolev , "Vladimir B. Grebenschikov,Moscow,408-7227,123-4567,Some-info" , freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: short uid/gid In-Reply-To: <200210152247.38939.dzerkel@columbus.rr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Danny J. Zerkel wrote: > At least for our Linux emulation layer, supporting IPC_64 would be one > of the pieces (probably the main one) keeping The Sims from running. > The other thing we are missing is the Linux ioctl() interface for > reading MSDOSFS directories, but that may be optional. > > I will eventually take a look at this (IPC_64) if the scheduling fairy > brings me the time. While I think support for the IPC_64 flag under emulation is useful, I'd rather make use of compatibility system calls and type improvements for the base FreeBSD implementation of the System V IPC APIs. Most of the work necessary to support those changes is required in order to better support fine-grained locking and MAC (breaking out the user and kernel structures). Also, it means future applications will make use of the improved APIs by default. In addition, other systems, such as Solaris, have already made this change in this way, avoiding the IPC_64 flag design. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message