From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Mar 1 19:24:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from smtp10.phx.gblx.net (smtp10.phx.gblx.net [206.165.6.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F1D537B71B for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 19:24:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp10.phx.gblx.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA04208; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 20:24:13 -0700 Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp10.phx.gblx.net, id smtpdGzF2ia; Thu Mar 1 20:24:09 2001 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA17826; Thu, 1 Mar 2001 20:24:30 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200103020324.UAA17826@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Arch question for a UDF FS driver To: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 03:24:30 +0000 (GMT) Cc: clefevre@poboxes.com, arch@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200103020016.TAA05234@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at Mar 01, 2001 07:16:32 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >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