Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 03:24:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Cc: clefevre@poboxes.com, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Arch question for a UDF FS driver Message-ID: <200103020324.UAA17826@usr05.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <200103020016.TAA05234@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at Mar 01, 2001 07:16:32 PM
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> >how about implementing transition xxx64() syscalls like solaris do ? > > Those are for Large File Summit support (a hackish way to claim POSIX > support while still having sizeof(off_t) > sizeof(unsigned long)). > Effectively they do the same thing as FreeBSD does with `COMPAT' > syscalls, except that the ``old'' calls are still made available in > certain compilation environments. FreeBSD never supported (this > particular expansion of) LFS; 4.4BSD came with large file support > built-in and simply ignored the POSIX/C89 issue for the most part. Consider my previous question resolved, now that there is a historical precedent for ignoring POSIX semantics under some circumstances, in favor of usability. 8-). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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