Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 09 Aug 2002 12:14:00 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: klibc development release |
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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...
-hpa
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