From owner-cvs-all Sun Dec 29 21:27: 3 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5C3237B406; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 21:27:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA60943E4A; Sun, 29 Dec 2002 21:26:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: from katana.zip.com.au (katana.zip.com.au [61.8.7.246]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA15925; Mon, 30 Dec 2002 16:26:52 +1100 Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 16:28:50 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-X-Sender: bde@gamplex.bde.org To: Robert Watson Cc: Garrett Wollman , , Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern syscalls.master In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20021230162450.R45061-100000@gamplex.bde.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 29 Dec 2002, Robert Watson wrote: > On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Bruce Evans wrote: > > > You don't have to follow it, since it is not a standard. > > > > Please don't add to the verbosity by prefixing 2 underscores. ... > > ... Libraries may need lots of underscores for their critical entry > > points for technical reasons, but kernels don't. > > The reason we have library wrappers around many of these calls is that the > draft standard defined a set of functions that could return opaque types > that are typically implemented using structures. I.e., the document has This is not very different from basic syscalls like fork() being a library call in the threaded case, except the ugly verbose names have not affected the kernel for basic syscalls. I might care about the ugly names in the library too if I wrote applications :-). Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message