Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 21:34:33 +0200 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl> To: Luoqi Chen <luoqi@watermarkgroup.com> Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Minor changes to USER_LDT related code Message-ID: <37CED149.D460F9EB@scc.nl> References: <199909021902.PAA27772@lor.watermarkgroup.com>
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Luoqi Chen wrote: > I like your idea to merge i386_get_ldt_args and i386_set_ldt_args into one > i386_ldt_args and make it public in sysarch.h. We probably also want to > change sysarch and libc code to use it. With regard to the EINVAL return > value, we could change it to EOPNOTSUPP and later map to ENOSYS in > linuxulator. Agreed. > Now do you think the sysarch() interface is still unusable? I feel strongly > about externalize i386_get_ldt/i386_set_ldt, especially there is a standard > API available and it takes very little effort to change the code to use it > (5 more lines in your diff file). Yes, with such a change sysarch can be used. I'll prepare a new diff with the proper changes. Just to make sure: We change the sysarch() interface, because EOPNOTSUPP has not previously been returned, right? I'll send you the changes asap for a final review. Thanks, -- Marcel Moolenaar mailto:marcel@scc.nl SCC Internetworking & Databases http://www.scc.nl/ The FreeBSD project mailto:marcel@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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