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Date:      Thu, 1 Feb 2001 12:44:02 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Drew Eckhardt <drew@PoohSticks.ORG>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Suboptimal mmap of devices on i86
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102011242120.853-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010129174030.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, John Baldwin wrote:

> Then only rename it in 4.x We can do an API change for 5.0.  We'll be
> renaming syscall2() back to syscall() in 5.0 for example.  We don't
> want to end up with syscall47() someday in FreeBSD 67.2. :-P

And what happens to apps using the previous syscall(2) interface? They
die horribly?  That's not acceptable.

Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu     |  www.FreeBSD.org



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