From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: davidm@hpl.hp.com
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@bergmann-dalldorf.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: klibc development release
Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2002 12:14:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D541478.40808@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 15700.4689.876752.886309@napali.hpl.hp.com
David Mosberger wrote:
>>>>>>On Fri, 09 Aug 2002 11:55:20 -0700, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> said:
>>>>>
>
> HPA> Hmf... some of these seem to be outright omissions
> HPA> (pivot_root() and umount2() especially), and probably indicate
> HPA> bugs or that the stock kernel isn't up to date anymore.
>
> HPA> I can see umount() being missing (as in "use umount2()").
>
> Alpha calls umount2() "oldumount"; ia64 never had a one-argument
> version of umount(), so there is no point creating legacy (and the
> naming is inconsistent anyhow...).
>
The gratuitous inconsistencies between platforms is something that is
currently driving me up the wall. I'm starting to think the NetBSD
people have the right idea: when you add a system call on NetBSD, you
only have to add it in one place and it becomes available on all the
platforms they support. Of course, you can provide a custom
implementation for any one platform, but the idea is to keep as much of
the code generic as possible...
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-09 19:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-09 3:39 klibc development release H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-09 10:14 ` Andreas Schwab
2002-08-09 18:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-09 11:33 ` Arnd Bergmann
2002-08-09 19:53 ` Arnd Bergmann
2002-08-09 18:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-09 19:04 ` David Mosberger
2002-08-09 19:14 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2002-08-09 22:27 ` Matti Aarnio
2002-08-09 22:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-10 6:22 ` Erik Andersen
2002-08-10 6:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-10 10:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-08-10 10:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-10 10:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-08-10 10:52 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-10 6:21 ` Erik Andersen
2002-08-09 19:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-09 20:22 ` David Mosberger
2002-08-09 20:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-09 20:16 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-08-09 20:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-11 5:02 ` Rob Landley
2002-08-11 13:13 ` Alexander Viro
2002-08-12 2:29 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-08-12 4:39 ` Alexander Viro
2002-08-09 22:03 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-08-11 5:11 ` Rob Landley
2002-08-11 15:56 ` Oliver Xymoron
2002-08-11 18:20 ` Albert D. Cahalan
2002-08-11 15:31 ` Rob Landley
2002-08-11 21:04 ` Erik Andersen
2002-08-11 22:18 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-08-12 3:17 ` Jamie Lokier
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