Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 00:08:49 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syscall changes to deal with 32->64 changes. Message-ID: <3CD77D81.1B6A7327@mindspring.com> References: <81862.1020748223@critter.freebsd.dk>
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Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > In message <3CD73A71.BF0AF3A@mindspring.com>, Terry Lambert writes: > >Garance A Drosihn wrote: > >> At 3:41 AM -0400 5/4/02, Robert Watson wrote: > >> >John Baldwin and I have thrown this idea around a number > >> >of times, as we keep bumping into things that would change > >> >the ABI. > >> > >> What things would those be? Might as well get them listed, > >> and see how many of them (if any...) could be included in > >> this new vector without hurting the timetable. > > > >Apart from the obvious "stat" values and time_t, there's also > >nlink_t, dev_t, etc.... and if we're really clever, a version > >number for the stat structure, as the first element. > > Can I officially move that Terry be banned from posting to arch@ ? Can I officially move that PHK answer Garance Droshin's original question, in the context of the UFS2 project, which Poul has already suggested will need the data structure changes which spurred the current thread on the system call API (and thus ABI) changing? It's been 4 days since the question was asked, and his only comment has been a request to squelch discussion of the list of things which will have to change. I would prefer that such a list be as complete as possible, to avoid additional changes being required as a result of future work by others. Thanks, -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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