Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 28 May 2002 12:31:07 -0500 | From | Dave McCracken <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] POSIX personality |
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--On Tuesday, May 28, 2002 01:26:28 PM -0400 Michael Sinz <msinz@wgate.com> wrote:
>> I've been thinking along those lines myself. At this point I'd suggest >> we implement them as separate, then if in the future no one ever uses >> them separately we can consider combining them. I know this can raise >> some backward compatibility issues but in theory if anyone cares we >> wouldn't do it. > > I would be worried about the future compatibility here. It would be > easier to be compatible to start with a single bit and then add > individual bits for those features that need to be broken out when it is > know to be needed. Folding the bits back in is not as easy as you now > have to still support the individual but yet unneeded.
That's a good point. But at this point I don't see any items where we can say up front that everyone will want all or none of them. I suspect we'll just have to live with them as separate flags.
Dave
====================================================================== Dave McCracken IBM Linux Base Kernel Team 1-512-838-3059 dmccr@us.ibm.com T/L 678-3059
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