Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:50:28 -0400 From: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: System headers with clang? Message-ID: <CACqU3MUqwEWjKO-yn5WctBWzPaRhKaAKqL9P1c=1ctMXxrfW_Q@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4E94E8D2.8010502@freebsd.org> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1110091229550.43656@lrosenman.dyndns.org> <4E942FF1.9000805@FreeBSD.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1110110830200.21480@lrosenman.dyndns.org> <4E9449F2.2000801@FreeBSD.org> <4E944BA5.4080506@lerctr.org> <83FC19FA-BD52-4383-9ABE-708161597B85@mac.com> <589d032a-7b71-4ff1-8adf-f5e49e87696c@email.android.com> <CACM2%2B-5ne78pQ0xbbomsJvbw27KsiVN4D66ie-admpQhBg7LPA@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1110111253440.62331@lrosenman.dyndns.org> <CAGH67wTpZ-HW7ogTWzhxV9XROkxLD_vCMGemc%2B9sOp%2B%2B1H3-gg@mail.gmail.com> <CADL2u4i1jPMGR0deh8TVqudoBQ4scqFoYazepR5s4DKchyQU2A@mail.gmail.com> <CACqU3MXeC1u1PsD4Dyx5RR3%2BAdSNE6hPuyZ599JiBx7ppcqOjg@mail.gmail.com> <4E949C26.4070105@freebsd.org> <CACqU3MVbVze0ejRqeoDANeREcWNhxQguOkyLU1V26AWT_2SqkA@mail.gmail.com> <4E94E8D2.8010502@freebsd.org>
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Hi, On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 9:09 PM, Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> wrote= : > On 10/11/11 12:57 PM, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Julian Elischer<julian@freebsd.org> >> =A0wrote: >>> >>> On 10/11/11 12:36 PM, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: >>>>> >>>>> [...] >> I will repeat myself here, but I ran what-was-to-become-Linux-v3.2 >> kernel on a 4 years old openwrt image and still had a functional >> system. Comparatively, I could not mix FreeBSD 7-STABLE userland and >> 8-STABLE kernel, The 8-STABLE kernel even changed the FS enough to >> make FreeBSD 7 unable to boot (even single user). > > actually due to libkvm there are actually a lot of programs that will wor= k > over the > 7-8 boundary... =A0a lot more than used to. between, say 2 and 3. > >> Let me emphasize again that it is only my personal opinion :-) > > Yep but its shared.. Unfortunately the problem is actually trickier than > first appears. > My own attempt at it can be seen with netgraph, where we instituted a tex= t > based > config scheme, and in geom where PHK made an XML config scheme. > it would seem that any attempt to solves that problem somehow ends-up to hierarchically text-encode/decode the binary data, Linux /proc / /sys text file-based interface, the netgraph encoding (which I admit is really powerful once dominated), phk's XML config scheme, NetBSD & Apple property list :) - Arnaud
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