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Date:      Thu, 6 Jul 2000 10:29:38 +0700 (ALMST)
From:      Boris Popov <bp@butya.kz>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: /sys hierarchy
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10007061027540.48110-100000@lion.butya.kz>
In-Reply-To: <3963E7F1.EC8F6D52@FreeBSD.org>

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On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, John Baldwin wrote:

> >         I would like also suggest a directory for optional kernel
> > interfaces which doesn't belong to drivers (syscall and sysctl extensions
> > for example) and can't go under sys/dev/. They can be considered as
> > 'kernel libraries' and may live under sys/lib directory (it should be
> > organized as sys/dev, eg. one directory per interface).
> > 
> >         Comments ?
> 
> OpenBSD has a precedent for this with sys/lib containing libkern, libz,
> and some other library.  Boris has a libiconv that he needs to import
> for
> Netware stuff if I'm correct.  If we deem that it needs to go in the
> kernel,
> then I can add sys/lib to the list.

	It will be shared by both smbfs and nwfs. One also can convert
msdosfs to use it too.

--
Boris Popov
http://www.butya.kz/~bp/



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