Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 15:54:47 -0600 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, "Pierre Y. Dampure" <pierre.dampure@westmarsh.com>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys user.h Message-ID: <20010220155447.A60954@hamlet.nectar.com> In-Reply-To: <95465.982704647@critter>; from phk@critter.freebsd.dk on Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 10:30:47PM %2B0100 References: <XFMail.010219175624.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <95465.982704647@critter>
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On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 10:30:47PM +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > >> > >> Hmm... I think you added this field without updating KINFO_PROC_SIZE -- > >> we now get warnings at boot time about the size of kinfo_proc differing > >> from KINFO_PROC_SIZE. > > > >That needs to die. I think a scheme like the following will work: > > <humour> > I'm starting to lean towards plan-9 again... > </humour> > > I think that a simple version number will be sufficient and that a sizeof > will be convenient. I don't think the sizeof should be a #define like > now, but rather an actual sizeof(). > > The current #define SIZEOF is unlikely to work on Bruce's i386/64bit-long > kernel for instance. > > if we want to go _way out_ we define the structures with XDR. <frightening why="half-serious"> XDR? Hmpf. ASN.1 and PER encoding. </frightening> -- Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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