Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 16:28:50 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>, <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern syscalls.master Message-ID: <20021230162450.R45061-100000@gamplex.bde.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1021229234028.80032A-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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On Sun, 29 Dec 2002, Robert Watson wrote: > On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Bruce Evans wrote: > > > You don't have to follow it, since it is not a standard. > > > > Please don't add to the verbosity by prefixing 2 underscores. ... > > ... Libraries may need lots of underscores for their critical entry > > points for technical reasons, but kernels don't. > > The reason we have library wrappers around many of these calls is that the > draft standard defined a set of functions that could return opaque types > that are typically implemented using structures. I.e., the document has This is not very different from basic syscalls like fork() being a library call in the threaded case, except the ugly verbose names have not affected the kernel for basic syscalls. I might care about the ugly names in the library too if I wrote applications :-). Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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