From owner-cvs-all Tue Jun 25 2:47:56 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A558237B40E; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 02:46:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bde.zeta.org.au (bde.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.102]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA23732; Tue, 25 Jun 2002 19:46:30 +1000 Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 19:51:51 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-X-Sender: bde@gamplex.bde.org To: Peter Wemm Cc: Martin Faxer , David Greenman-Lawrence , Alfred Perlstein , , Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern uipc_syscalls.c In-Reply-To: <20020624213441.33750380E@overcee.wemm.org> Message-ID: <20020625193929.X26196-100000@gamplex.bde.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Peter Wemm wrote: > Martin Faxer wrote: > > what actually prompted me to write the nsendfile() thing was > > that I quickly checked syscalls.master and saw entries for n[lf]stat(). > > upon checking more closely that might be something else though, and not > > related at all to "new" stat() functions, I'm not sure... > > Those are NetBSD [lf]stat() syscalls using a [stale] NetBSD style struct > stat. They use other syscalls these days so they are a bit silly now. Can we remove these? They are not even 100% compatible with the stale NetBSD one now, since struct nstat has a st_createtimespec in it and the "n" stat functions fill this in. Mismaintaining this mainly wasted time. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message