From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 00:35:07 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] XFS / IA64 system call conflict Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Tue, 24 Jul 2001 10:30:18 +1000, Keith Owens said: Keith> Do you take care of glibc as well? That is where the problem Keith> tends to occur. glibc is a *user* of the kernel's system call numbers, so I don't see how this could create a problem. Perhaps you're worried about the name of the libc system call? Keith> In any case the XFS syscalls are for the SGI version of ACLs. Keith> There are other projects working on ACLs, until there is Keith> agreement about the ACL syscall interface, the XFS numbers Keith> cannot be considered to be permanent. So yes, we are on our Keith> own for the moment. Fine by me provided you make sure that the users of XFS understand that. It does sound though that it would be premature to recommend widespread use of XFS at this time. --david