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Date:      Fri, 8 Jan 2016 13:12:35 -0800
From:      Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r293439 - in head: lib/libc/sys sys/dev/ti sys/kern sys/sys usr.bin/netstat
Message-ID:  <20160108211235.GH1906@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <56901DFA.7090409@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201601082034.u08KYvLv075281@repo.freebsd.org> <56901DFA.7090409@FreeBSD.org>

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On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 12:37:14PM -0800, Bryan Drewery wrote:
B> >   The new syscalls is a drop in replacement. No modifications are required
B> >   to applications. One can take nginx binary for stable/10 and run it
B> >   successfully on head. Although SF_NODISKIO lost its original sense, as now
B> >   sendfile doesn't block, and now means something completely different (tm),
B> >   using the new sendfile the old way is absolutely safe.
B> >   
B> >   Celebrates:	Netflix global launch!
B> >   Sponsored by:	Nginx, Inc.
B> >   Sponsored by:	Netflix
B> >   Relnotes:	yes
B> > 
B> > Modified:
B> >   head/lib/libc/sys/sendfile.2
B> >   head/sys/dev/ti/if_ti.c
B> >   head/sys/kern/uipc_mbuf.c
B> >   head/sys/kern/uipc_syscalls.c
B> >   head/sys/sys/mbuf.h
B> >   head/sys/sys/sf_buf.h
B> >   head/sys/sys/socket.h
B> >   head/usr.bin/netstat/mbuf.c
B> 
B> Why not merge the branch with full history?

This was already discussed in scope of other project branches, and decision
was that this idea is bad. I don't remember the details. May be subversion
experts will reply.

Anyway, I'm not going to delete the branch soon. Indeed, it has a lot of
interesting stories of success and failures in it :)

-- 
Totus tuus, Glebius.



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