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Date:      Thu, 8 Dec 2005 08:29:57 -0500 (EST)
From:      Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
To:        David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, cvs-src@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/sys signal.h
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.43.0512080828490.226-100000@sea.ntplx.net>
In-Reply-To: <4397BB3B.2010008@freebsd.org>

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On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, David Xu wrote:

> Daniel Eischen wrote:
> > I was going to do it in libc so it doesn't have to be done by each
> > thread library.
> >
> > But there are still aio_* syscalls that haven't been changed to have
> > compat syscalls.  You did aio_read, aio_write, and lio_listion, but
> > not aio_error, aio_return, aio_suspend, aio_cancel, and aio_waitcomplete.
> > I think these really need compat syscalls due to the different layout of
> > struct sigevent (because it affects layout of struct aiocb).
> >
> The aio_error, aio_return and other syscalls don't access sigevent,
> they all access kernel private data of aiocb, I left old sigevent space
> there, but will not be used by new syscalls, the new sigevent is
> appended at end of aiocb, offset of kernel private data area is not changed.

So we're OK then since you've already added compat syscalls.  Only
-current users need to recompile.

-- 
DE




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