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On Fri Aug 09, 2002 at 12:14:00PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > David Mosberger wrote: > >>>>>>On Fri, 09 Aug 2002 11:55:20 -0700, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> > >>>>>>said: > >>>>> > > > > HPA> Hmf... some of these seem to be outright omissions > > HPA> (pivot_root() and umount2() especially), and probably indicate > > HPA> bugs or that the stock kernel isn't up to date anymore. > > > > HPA> I can see umount() being missing (as in "use umount2()"). > > > >Alpha calls umount2() "oldumount"; ia64 never had a one-argument > >version of umount(), so there is no point creating legacy (and the > >naming is inconsistent anyhow...). > > > > The gratuitous inconsistencies between platforms is something that is > currently driving me up the wall. I'm starting to think the NetBSD > people have the right idea: when you add a system call on NetBSD, you > only have to add it in one place and it becomes available on all the > platforms they support. Of course, you can provide a custom > implementation for any one platform, but the idea is to keep as much of > the code generic as possible... Amen brother. That would be great! But I'm not holding my breath waiting to see it, -Erik -- Erik B. Andersen http://codepoet-consulting.com/ --This message was written using 73% post-consumer electrons-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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