Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 12:52:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> To: Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org> Cc: Eric Lemar <eric.lemar@isilon.com>, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: *at family of syscalls in FreeBSD Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0706081251320.4119@sea.ntplx.net> In-Reply-To: <20070608164817.GA28549@freebsd.org> References: <896DB1FBFFD5A145833D9DA08CA12A85051A7F@seaxch07.desktop.isilon.com> <20070606074429.GA42032@freebsd.org> <4666F0FB.8020101@FreeBSD.org> <20070607070455.GA71012@freebsd.org> <896DB1FBFFD5A145833D9DA08CA12A85051A84@seaxch07.desktop.isilon.com> <20070607210313.GA603@freebsd.org> <896DB1FBFFD5A145833D9DA08CA12A85051A87@seaxch07.desktop.isilon.com> <Pine.GSO.4.64.0706072147440.28966@sea.ntplx.net> <20070608161523.GB27624@freebsd.org> <Pine.GSO.4.64.0706081218090.4119@sea.ntplx.net> <20070608164817.GA28549@freebsd.org>
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On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Roman Divacky wrote: > On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 12:23:49PM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote: >> 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? No objection here :-) -- DE
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