From owner-cvs-all Thu Oct 24 14:10:33 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D28637B401; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 14:10:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41CCA43E4A; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 14:10:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.12.4/8.12.4) with SMTP id g9OL9mOo070406; Thu, 24 Oct 2002 17:09:49 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 17:09:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Craig Rodrigues Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/sys aio_cancel.2 aio_error.2 aio_read.2 aio_return.2 aio_suspend.2 aio_waitcomplete.2 aio_write.2 In-Reply-To: <20021024170737.A34595@attbi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It used to be the case that we discouraged the use of the aio code because the kernel side of things was notoriously flakey (and in fact, had security holes). I know there has been quite a bit of cleanup since I last noticed that was the case -- do we know if those concerns still apply, and if so, whether we should stop a scary BUGS message into the aio man pages, rather than just recommending people load the module? Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 10:55:55PM +0200, Philippe Charnier wrote: > > Salut, > > > > Please add the following patch > > OK, I incorporated some minor fixes to aio.4 from Philippe. > Here's what I've got. > -- > Craig Rodrigues > http://www.gis.net/~craigr > rodrigc@attbi.com > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message