Re: *at family of syscalls in FreeBSD

On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Roman Divacky wrote:

On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 12:23:49PM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote:
I just don't want us to add native functions that don't conform
to POSIX, mostly the API is what I am concerned about. We can
change the behavior slightly to conform with whatever POSIX
dictates, but we shouldn't knowingly introduce non-conforming
APIs (because once 7.0 is released, we'll would always have to
support both the non-conforming APIs as well as adding and
supporting the conforming APIs).

I have NOT implemented a single bit of native syscalls API and when I am
going to do it it will be 100% posix API (minus bugs ;) )

we can commit this in two phases:

phase I: kern_fooat() + linux stuff
phase II: native fbsd syscalls

I hope to resolve all the issues Eric raised over the weekend (hopefully) and
then it only needs a review(er) + a commiter

I definitely want this in for 7.0R.

does this sound good to you?

No objection here :-)

--
DE
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