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Date:      Fri, 8 Jun 2007 18:48:17 +0200
From:      Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org>
To:        Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Eric Lemar <eric.lemar@isilon.com>, arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: *at family of syscalls in FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <20070608164817.GA28549@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0706081218090.4119@sea.ntplx.net>
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On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 12:23:49PM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Roman Divacky wrote:
> 
> >>It looks like draft 3 will be released June 15, 2007 (in 10 days).
> >
> >is it ok to have this committed after June 15 (afaik the branching day)? 
> >maybe
> >without the native syscalls but with the kern_fooat() backend. (ie. *at 
> >syscalls
> >can be added for 7.1R with a few lines patch)
> 
> I don't have any objection over adding linux compat functionality.

the linux compat thingie needs those kern_fooat().

> I just don't want us to add native functions that don't conform
> to POSIX, mostly the API is what I am concerned about.  We can
> change the behavior slightly to conform with whatever POSIX
> dictates, but we shouldn't knowingly introduce non-conforming
> APIs (because once 7.0 is released, we'll would always have to
> support both the non-conforming APIs as well as adding and
> supporting the conforming APIs).

I have NOT implemented a single bit of native syscalls API and when I am
going to do it it will be 100% posix API (minus bugs ;) )

we can commit this in two phases: 

phase I: kern_fooat() + linux stuff 
phase II: native fbsd syscalls

I hope to resolve all the issues Eric raised over the weekend (hopefully) and
then it only needs a review(er) + a commiter

I definitely want this in for 7.0R. 

does this sound good to you?

roman



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