Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 19:12:55 +0100 From: mouss <usebsd@free.fr> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com> Cc: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu Subject: Re: [kernel patch] fcntl(...) to close many descriptors Message-ID: <4.3.0.20010129191139.064648d0@pop.free.fr> In-Reply-To: <200101291737.f0THbWg65163@earth.backplane.com> References: <200101290303.f0T33qg60603@earth.backplane.com> <200101281837.f0SIbGI24332@iguana.aciri.org> <200101290303.f0T33qg60603@earth.backplane.com> <p05010400b69ac2c32903@[128.113.24.47]> <4.3.0.20010129145823.023dfeb0@pop.free.fr> <20010129081455.B2390@hamlet.nectar.com>
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At 09:37 29/01/01 -0800, Matt Dillon wrote: > This is a bad idea. One of the reasons why it is so easy for us to > write portability modules for Sun, Linux, etc... is because of the > hard-coded syscall numbers. Syscalls work plenty well enough as they > are now, we do not need a new mechansm. true, but if the same idea gets adopted by those many OSes, then it's a benefit for them all. just how PAM came: it was non-portabble before adoption! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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