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Date:      Fri, 19 Oct 2001 22:02:40 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
Cc:        Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc_r/uthread pthread_private.h
Message-ID:  <20011019220240.Q24666@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1011019144658.12265B@pcnet1.pcnet.com>; from eischen@vigrid.com on Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 02:57:14PM -0400
References:  <20011019214045.L24666@sunbay.com> <Pine.SUN.3.91.1011019144658.12265B@pcnet1.pcnet.com>

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On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 02:57:14PM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 10:55:25AM -0700, Jason Evans wrote:
> > > On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 10:22:04AM -0700, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> > > > ru          2001/10/19 10:22:04 PDT
> > > > 
> > > >   Modified files:        (Branch: RELENG_4)
> > > >     lib/libc_r/uthread   pthread_private.h 
> > > >   Log:
> > > >   Cleanup of _thread_sys* declarations:
> > > >   
> > > >   - Removed gratuitous declarations for non-syscalls.
> > > >   
> > > >   - Added declarations for aio_suspend(), kevent(), nanosleep(), rfork(),
> > > >     sched_yield(), sendfile(), sigblock(), sigsetmask(), and vfork().
> > > >   
> > > >   - Fixed declarations for <sys/socket.h> syscalls (int -> socklen_t).
> > > >   
> > > >   - Style.
> > > 
> > > Why weren't the changes that are equally applicable to -current made there
> > > first, then MFCed?  This looks to me like an obvious violation of stated
> > > procedure.  This surely would have been pointed out to you, had you
> > > bothered to have the changes reviewed by me or Dan Eischen.
> > > 
> > It doesn't equally applicable to -CURRENT actually, and I tried to get a
> > review from Daniel for a related (unhide nfssvc(2)) change with no luck.
> 
> Sorry, I didn't know you wanted a review for that.  OK, it looks
> good to me :-)
> 
> > In -CURRENT, we don't hide syscalls, but instead syscalls are available
> > as __sys_*, and libc provides weak aliases for them which libc_r then
> > overrides some of.  We thus have a light-weighted version of libc_r
> > in -CURRENT, as compared to -STABLE:
> > 
> > -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  1456412 Oct 19 20:06 /STABLE/usr/lib/libc_r.a
> > -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   252026 Oct 15 05:19 /CURRENT/usr/lib/libc_r.a
> > 
> > In -STABLE, we rename syscalls that libc_r overrides to __sys_thread_*.
>                                            _thread_sys_* ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > So at least item 1 (the biggest) of this change isn't applicable to
> > -CURRENT.  Also, as we don't hide syscalls in -CURRENT, compiling a
> > program statically with libc_r with either of nfssvc() or sigreturn()
> > worked in -CURRENT, but was broken in -STABLE.
> > 
> > But I agree that at least item 2 (<sys/socket.h> syscalls prototypes)
> > applies to -CURRENT as well, and am sorry for not doing it there first.
> > 
> > OTOH, in -CURRENT, real syscalls are avaibale as __sys_*, and the
> > right thing to do would be to prototype only those syscalls that
> > are used internally by libc_r.  I'll prepare the patch on Monday
> > for -CURRENT, and will send it to you for review.
> 
> I think I already did this when I made that big change to
> -current's libc_r.  At least I _thought_ I removed all the
> unneccessary prototypes...
> 
Let me check this and these on Monday.  As I said, at least
<sys/socket.h> part is applicable.


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