Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 14:57:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc_r/uthread pthread_private.h Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1011019144658.12265B@pcnet1.pcnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20011019214045.L24666@sunbay.com>
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On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 10:55:25AM -0700, Jason Evans wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 10:22:04AM -0700, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > ru 2001/10/19 10:22:04 PDT > > > > > > Modified files: (Branch: RELENG_4) > > > lib/libc_r/uthread pthread_private.h > > > Log: > > > Cleanup of _thread_sys* declarations: > > > > > > - Removed gratuitous declarations for non-syscalls. > > > > > > - Added declarations for aio_suspend(), kevent(), nanosleep(), rfork(), > > > sched_yield(), sendfile(), sigblock(), sigsetmask(), and vfork(). > > > > > > - Fixed declarations for <sys/socket.h> syscalls (int -> socklen_t). > > > > > > - Style. > > > > Why weren't the changes that are equally applicable to -current made there > > first, then MFCed? This looks to me like an obvious violation of stated > > procedure. This surely would have been pointed out to you, had you > > bothered to have the changes reviewed by me or Dan Eischen. > > > It doesn't equally applicable to -CURRENT actually, and I tried to get a > review from Daniel for a related (unhide nfssvc(2)) change with no luck. Sorry, I didn't know you wanted a review for that. OK, it looks good to me :-) > In -CURRENT, we don't hide syscalls, but instead syscalls are available > as __sys_*, and libc provides weak aliases for them which libc_r then > overrides some of. We thus have a light-weighted version of libc_r > in -CURRENT, as compared to -STABLE: > > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 1456412 Oct 19 20:06 /STABLE/usr/lib/libc_r.a > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 252026 Oct 15 05:19 /CURRENT/usr/lib/libc_r.a > > In -STABLE, we rename syscalls that libc_r overrides to __sys_thread_*. _thread_sys_* ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > So at least item 1 (the biggest) of this change isn't applicable to > -CURRENT. Also, as we don't hide syscalls in -CURRENT, compiling a > program statically with libc_r with either of nfssvc() or sigreturn() > worked in -CURRENT, but was broken in -STABLE. > > But I agree that at least item 2 (<sys/socket.h> syscalls prototypes) > applies to -CURRENT as well, and am sorry for not doing it there first. > > OTOH, in -CURRENT, real syscalls are avaibale as __sys_*, and the > right thing to do would be to prototype only those syscalls that > are used internally by libc_r. I'll prepare the patch on Monday > for -CURRENT, and will send it to you for review. I think I already did this when I made that big change to -current's libc_r. At least I _thought_ I removed all the unneccessary prototypes... -- Dan Eischen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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