From owner-cvs-all Mon Jun 24 10:49:15 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from root.com (nexus.root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C030137B401; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 10:49:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dg@localhost) by root.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) id g5OHkDD15816; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 10:46:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dg) Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 10:46:13 -0700 From: David Greenman-Lawrence To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern uipc_syscalls.c Message-ID: <20020624104613.D6982@nexus.root.com> References: <200206240642.g5O6gM327387@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020624011200.A6982@nexus.root.com> <20020624090931.GR53232@elvis.mu.org> <20020624101654.B6982@nexus.root.com> <20020624172702.GV53232@elvis.mu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020624172702.GV53232@elvis.mu.org>; from alfred@FreeBSD.org on Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 10:27:02AM -0700 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >> Actually, what I said was "Yes, this is going to require some backwords >> compatibility gook before it is MFC'd."...and that was 6 months ago. It's >> even more true today. >> Of course this hurdle was the reason it was never MFCed. I'm just thinking >> about how much of a pain this is going to be to deal with it on all of the >> DTI servers and figure that other people will choke on it, too. > >Ok, then just tell me what to do and I'll do the grunt work. I don't have any experience trying to do this, but my understanding is that the syscall would need to be deprecated and renamed something like osendfile(). osendfile() just becomes a compatibility shim (presumably subtracting the header length from nbytes) and then calls the new syscall. -DG D.G.Lawrence Download Technologies, Inc. - http://www.downloadtech.com - (866) 399 8500 TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com - (503) 288 9544 The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message