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Matthew Dillon wrote:
>     I recommend that instead of rolling these sorts of system calls over
>     and over again (how many versions of stat do we have now?  A lot!),
>     that instead you make a system call which returns a capability buffer
>     and then have libc load the capabilities it understands into the
>     structure.  That way you don't have to worry about forwards and
>     backwards kernel compatibility.
> 
>     This is what I plan to do with DragonFly for *stat(), *statfs*(),
>     various sysctls that return structures, and so forth.  Wherever it makes
>     sense to do it.

How do you propose to achieve POSIX compliance?  At the library
level?  Or "not at all"?

-- Terry