From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 27 18:16:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DB06152D8 for ; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 18:16:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from green@unixhelp.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA88952; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 21:16:06 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 21:16:06 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian F. Feldman" X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: Alexander Viro Cc: Bill Sommerfeld , Francois-Rene Rideau , Linux Kernel , FreeBSD Hackers , NetBSD Kernel Subject: Re: Improving the Unix API y, In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 27 Jun 1999, Alexander Viro wrote: > > As for the opening with no permissions - well, it would make *big* sense > if we could narrow down the API and move chown(), chmod(), etc. into libc > leaving f-variants in the kernel. Binary compatibility... Extreme variant > might include {set,get}sockopt extended to files and doing both *stat and > *ch{mod,own,flags} via that. Out of curiosity - did somebody on *BSD side > play with that? > Actually, instead of *big* sense, that makes *no* sense. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > Brian Fundakowski Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@FreeBSD.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \._ \ |) | http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message