Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 09:22:01 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The whole libc thing. Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1010215091945.2023B-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102152135350.9729-100000@besplex.bde.org>
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On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Bruce Evans wrote: > On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Warner Losh wrote: > > > Green's solution of stealing a pointer and using that to "grow" FILE. > > This would allow old binaris to keep working at the cost of binary > > compatibility. There's a few extra indirections in this case, you'll > > likely not be able to measure that performance loss. But it will work > > with the case above and most of the others we threw at it. > > Pointers to FILEs can be converted to pointers extensions of FILEs using > a hash lookup. This takes slightly more than a few indirections, but > it doesn't cost binary compatibilty. And introduces another place where locks would be needed. -- Dan Eischen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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