From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 29 10: 5:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.nettoll.com (matrix.nettoll.net [212.155.143.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A242637B699 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 10:04:56 -0800 (PST) Received: by smtp.nettoll.com; Mon, 29 Jan 2001 18:58:59 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <4.3.0.20010129191139.064648d0@pop.free.fr> X-Sender: usebsd@pop.free.fr X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3 Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 19:12:55 +0100 To: Matt Dillon , "Jacques A. Vidrine" From: mouss Subject: Re: [kernel patch] fcntl(...) to close many descriptors Cc: Garance A Drosihn , Luigi Rizzo , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu In-Reply-To: <200101291737.f0THbWg65163@earth.backplane.com> References: <200101290303.f0T33qg60603@earth.backplane.com> <200101281837.f0SIbGI24332@iguana.aciri.org> <200101290303.f0T33qg60603@earth.backplane.com> <4.3.0.20010129145823.023dfeb0@pop.free.fr> <20010129081455.B2390@hamlet.nectar.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 09:37 29/01/01 -0800, Matt Dillon wrote: > This is a bad idea. One of the reasons why it is so easy for us to > write portability modules for Sun, Linux, etc... is because of the > hard-coded syscall numbers. Syscalls work plenty well enough as they > are now, we do not need a new mechansm. true, but if the same idea gets adopted by those many OSes, then it's a benefit for them all. just how PAM came: it was non-portabble before adoption! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message