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Date:      Wed, 15 Jul 2026 09:40:17 +0000
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>
To:        src-committers@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org, dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: git: db3eca2be206 - main - exterrctl(2): add kern_exterrctl
Message-ID:  <aldVgS2EcngIYMxN@spindle.one-eyed-alien.net>
In-Reply-To: <6a5753ba.45416.2e3347a4@gitrepo.freebsd.org>

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On Wed, Jul 15, 2026 at 09:32:42AM +0000, Brooks Davis wrote:
> The branch main has been updated by brooks:
> 
> URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=db3eca2be2067f7e81d65686b33dcbd475aed363
> 
> commit db3eca2be2067f7e81d65686b33dcbd475aed363
> Author:     Brooks Davis <brooks@FreeBSD.org>
> AuthorDate: 2026-07-15 08:43:50 +0000
> Commit:     Brooks Davis <brooks@FreeBSD.org>
> CommitDate: 2026-07-15 09:32:16 +0000
> 
>     exterrctl(2): add kern_exterrctl

This is the first of a large pile of these additions required to support
64-bit integer based ABIs on CHERI systems.  I pulled this one out as
part of a stack of changes to make exterror(9) work better with CHERI
(which then spiraled into more enhancements as I nerd sniped myself).

The full set and a longer description of why these are needed can be
found in https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/pull/2284.  Most of them
are trivial, but a few (e.g., sendfile and jail managment) are more
complex.

-- Brooks


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