From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Feb 27 14:53:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37CA337B402; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 14:53:42 -0800 (PST) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1192) id 13F2EAE27E; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 14:53:42 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 14:53:41 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Brian Fundakowski Feldman Cc: bde@FreeBSD.org, arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Do we want the _SYS_SYSPROTO_H_ junk? Message-ID: <20020227225341.GX80761@elvis.mu.org> References: <200202272239.g1RMd8i46060@green.bikeshed.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200202272239.g1RMd8i46060@green.bikeshed.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Brian Fundakowski Feldman [020227 14:39] wrote: > Since obviously, by nature, all the code for syscall declarations inside > #ifdef _SYS_SYSPROTO_H_ is bogus, is it truly useful to use it on new system > calls, or should we not? I think it's worth having an entry in style(9) for > system calls, and want to know what should be there regarding this. It > seems the struct foo_args /* structure members stuff */ *uap; stuff is at > least also consistent with what is similarly done with vnode operation > declarations. > > What do you think? I think there's more important stuff to worry about than this. I also find that SYSPROTO helps when making syscall modules but I'm not sure what you're getting at so I'd apprecciate it if you held off whatever your plans are for a day. -- -Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org] 'Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.' Tax deductible donations for FreeBSD: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message