Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 18:27:36 +0000 () From: Julian Elischer <julian@jhome.DIALix.COM> To: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett A. Wollman) Cc: phk@critter.tfs.com, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MOUNT_* constants Message-ID: <199512211827.SAA07395@jhome.DIALix.COM> In-Reply-To: <9512211709.AA26246@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett A. Wollman" at Dec 21, 95 12:09:10 pm
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> > > > <<On Thu, 21 Dec 1995 13:28:42 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> said: > > >> Linker sets can't be used to sove problems related to magic numbers in > >> the user interface. > > > Filesystems have a magic number as well. > > It's intended that said magic number will go away, and all mapping > will be dynamic. There is almost no need for them now, except the > compatibility cruft in the mount_* programs. The other thing I want to make dynamic is AF_INET and related constants... I see no reason to not have a pointer to a string "inet" for compatibility we can make pointers < 32 be treated as the old constant, but I hope to redefine AF_INET as "inet" some time this millenium :) > > -GAWollman > > -- > Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... > wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. > Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people > MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant >
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