From owner-cvs-all Sat Mar 25 23: 8: 4 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from holly.calldei.com (adsl-208-191-146-189.dsl.hstntx.swbell.net [208.191.146.189]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A8AB37B921; Sat, 25 Mar 2000 23:07:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@holly.calldei.com) Received: (from chris@localhost) by holly.calldei.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA24922; Sun, 26 Mar 2000 01:07:49 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from chris) Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 01:07:48 -0600 From: Chris Costello To: Bill Fumerola Cc: Brian Fundakowski Feldman , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/miscfs/linprocfs linprocfs_misc.c Message-ID: <20000326010748.E18325@holly.calldei.com> Reply-To: chris@calldei.com References: <200003251941.LAA67435@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000326003014.D18325@holly.calldei.com> <20000326015708.S25438@jade.chc-chimes.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/0.96.4i In-Reply-To: <20000326015708.S25438@jade.chc-chimes.com> Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, March 26, 2000, Bill Fumerola wrote: > > I really think this should be a part of the Linux emulator if > > anything. This just seems like we're only encouraging the use of > > bad interfaces. > > I think the point of having this "bad interface" in our tree is to open up the > doors to software written by linuxcentric and/or unintelligent programmers who > write nonportable code. I don't particularly like non-portable code. > Sometimes we can get around this by porting their code, sometimes we can't > (read: binary only software). See my comment about it being part of the Linux compatibility code. -- |Chris Costello |If it was easy, the hardware people would take care of it. `---------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message