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Date:      Fri, 22 May 2009 16:21:14 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        Dimitry Andric <dimitry@andric.com>
Cc:        svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-7@freebsd.org, Kip Macy <kmacy@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r192590 - stable/7/sys/sys
Message-ID:  <200905221621.15507.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <4A17063F.60303@andric.com>
References:  <200905221754.n4MHs3cr014003@svn.freebsd.org> <200905221507.39476.jhb@freebsd.org> <4A17063F.60303@andric.com>

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On Friday 22 May 2009 4:08:31 pm Dimitry Andric wrote:
> On 2009-05-22 21:07, John Baldwin wrote:
> >> Log:
> >>   some ports erroneously use the existence of AT_FDCWD to check for
> >>   the availability of the *at system calls so s/AT_FDCWD/AT_FDCWD_notyet/g
> >>   
> >>   Reported by: Dimitry Andric
> > 
> > I wonder if it wouldn't be appropriate to just remove the dirfd bits entirely 
> > from 7.x for now.  I.e. remove NDINIT_AT(), AT_FDCWD_notyet, the 'dirfd' 
> > member from the structure, the 'dirfd' parameter from NDINIT_ALL(), etc.  ZFS 
> > only really needed NDINIT_ATVP(), yes?
> 
> Are there any plans to MFC the *at() calls?  (I'd guess not, since it
> looks like they change the ABI...) 

I don't think there are due to the ABI change, and if they were ever MFC'd,
the NDINIT, etc. bits could be restored as part of that merge.

-- 
John Baldwin



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