From owner-freebsd-arch Mon May 6 22:11: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A50737B408; Mon, 6 May 2002 22:11:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g475ANQ4081863; Tue, 7 May 2002 07:10:29 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Terry Lambert Cc: Garance A Drosihn , Robert Watson , arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syscall changes to deal with 32->64 changes. In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 06 May 2002 19:22:41 PDT." <3CD73A71.BF0AF3A@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 07:10:23 +0200 Message-ID: <81862.1020748223@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <3CD73A71.BF0AF3A@mindspring.com>, Terry Lambert writes: >Garance A Drosihn wrote: >> At 3:41 AM -0400 5/4/02, Robert Watson wrote: >> >John Baldwin and I have thrown this idea around a number >> >of times, as we keep bumping into things that would change >> >the ABI. >> >> What things would those be? Might as well get them listed, >> and see how many of them (if any...) could be included in >> this new vector without hurting the timetable. > >Apart from the obvious "stat" values and time_t, there's also >nlink_t, dev_t, etc.... and if we're really clever, a version >number for the stat structure, as the first element. Can I officially move that Terry be banned from posting to arch@ ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message