Date: Sun, 9 Jul 1995 08:20:50 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: ukkonen@aphrodite.funet.fi Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new getsid(2) system call for freebsd... Message-ID: <199507090620.IAA27669@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199507072142.AAA00799@jau.csc.fi> from "Jukka Ukkonen" at Jul 8, 95 00:42:04 am
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As Jukka Ukkonen wrote: > > > A couple of days ago I had a sudden moment of inspiration and > I added an initial version of a new SVR4 style system call > getsid(2) to FreeBSD. > The rationale for such a new system call is first and foremost > completeness and symmetry. The second reason is the fact that > X/Open might begin requiring such a service in their XPG, which > might become a portability issue one day. The third point is > that now and then there are things that would be somewhat easier > to do, if such an interface were available, and moreover it is > practically impossible to do exactly the same thing in a user > mode subroutine. While i don't know about the second point (and hope that anybody else here would comment on it), the third point is not acceptable (for me). Writing code that relies on a specific system call that's only present in a couple of systems is not a good idea. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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