Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 21:21:29 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern Makefile makesyscalls.sh Message-ID: <29797.1003000889@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 13 Oct 2001 21:56:40 %2B1000." <20011013213952.F57340-100000@delplex.bde.org>
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In message <20011013213952.F57340-100000@delplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes:
>On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
>> In message <20011013203914.D57006-100000@delplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes:
>> >Don't forget to remove the corresponding "namespc" column from all
>> >syscall.master files. It was used to fill <sys/syscalls-hide.h> with
>> >noise. Now it is just unused.
>>
>> I deliberately did not do that, since the column actually seems to
>> contain a useful indication of the origin of the syscalls.
>
>Look at it closer and you'll see that in kern/syscalls.master it contains
>little more than a useless indication of what what was in POSIX in about
>1990. In {compat,${MACHINE}}/*/syscalls.master it contains even less.
Yeah, well, if anything the entire concept should be reworked so that
we don't have to check in generated files...
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