From owner-freebsd-current Thu Dec 21 10:28:12 1995 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA24005 for current-outgoing; Thu, 21 Dec 1995 10:28:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from jhome.DIALix.COM (root@jhome.DIALix.COM [192.203.228.69]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA24000 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 1995 10:28:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from julian@localhost) by jhome.DIALix.COM (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA07395; Thu, 21 Dec 1995 18:27:37 GMT From: Julian Elischer Message-Id: <199512211827.SAA07395@jhome.DIALix.COM> Subject: Re: MOUNT_* constants To: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett A. Wollman) Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 18:27:36 +0000 () Cc: phk@critter.tfs.com, current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9512211709.AA26246@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett A. Wollman" at Dec 21, 95 12:09:10 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8b] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > > > < said: > > >> Linker sets can't be used to sove problems related to magic numbers in > >> the user interface. > > > Filesystems have a magic number as well. > > It's intended that said magic number will go away, and all mapping > will be dynamic. There is almost no need for them now, except the > compatibility cruft in the mount_* programs. The other thing I want to make dynamic is AF_INET and related constants... I see no reason to not have a pointer to a string "inet" for compatibility we can make pointers < 32 be treated as the old constant, but I hope to redefine AF_INET as "inet" some time this millenium :) > > -GAWollman > > -- > Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... > wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. > Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people > MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant >