Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 18:59:22 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Joe Kelsey <joek@mail.flyingcroc.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Posix Semaphores in -CURRENT Message-ID: <3DFFE48A.F48A6129@mindspring.com> References: <3DF8F08E.8050809@mail.flyingcroc.net> <3DFA0771.BDFC87A8@mindspring.com> <3DFA0DAC.2070801@mail.flyingcroc.net> <3DFA1251.C4755C5B@mindspring.com> <3DFA18CC.8090205@mail.flyingcroc.net> <3DFC0464.A72308AC@mindspring.com> <3DFDEBEC.4090209@mail.flyingcroc.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Joe Kelsey wrote: > > OK, this is a bug. The semantics don't conform to POSIX. > ... > > I rather imagine the correct thing to do is to root it in the FS, > > and, without a leading '/', treat it as relative to the process > > current directory. > > > > Basically, this is not a two line fix... it's a lot of work, to > > get a filesystem object to use. > > I think that it *is* a two-line fix. Remove the maximum length (or > impose a maximum length of MAX_PATHNAMELEN), and simply remove the whole > '/' checking. Then, the private namespace correctly emulates posix > semantics, except for the rooted versus relative stuff, which would be > *really* hard to do in a private namespace and of questionable value anyway. Sorry, but Garrett was right about the implementation: it should not be using a private namespace in the first place. Making it work for a private namespace that shouldn't be there in the first place seems really questionable, to me... -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3DFFE48A.F48A6129>