Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 13:13:38 -0500 From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SYSCALL IDEAS [Was: cvs commit: src/sys/kern sysv_msg.c sysv_sem.c sysv_shm.c] Message-ID: <9510291813.AA26273@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199510272350.QAA24249@phaeton.artisoft.com> References: <199510272157.HAA29637@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <199510272350.QAA24249@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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[CC list trimmed AGAIN. Can you please get this discussion OUT of cvs-committers?] <<On Fri, 27 Oct 1995 16:50:50 -0700 (MST), Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> said: > I understand the rationale for considering the changes. I don't understand > the rationale for making them. It seems the rationale is "to compete with > NetBSD and Linux regarding speed". Is this correct? > I personally don't find that compelling (that's not to say that the > majority doesn't outweigh me on this -- only that it does not convince > me, personally). Every microsecond counts. I am presently having to design a disgusting hack in the kernel which allows our traffic generator to run in the kernel because it is not possible to fill an Ethernet with minimum-length UDP packets when crossing the system call boundary. As for the `off_t' question: you will never convince me that the Berkeley people did not do the right thing. I still hold out hope that it will be possible to create a proper ISO C environment for FreeBSD in which CHAR_BIT*sizeof(long) == 64. -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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