Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Eric Youngdale" <> | Date | Thu, 27 Jun 1996 16:34:53 -0400 | Subject | Re: libc types [was: SCSI device numbering] |
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>Not so pessimistic. I plan to submit a series of patches to the kernel >so that it (i) gets a kdev_t that is a pointer to a structure, >(ii) gets new, versioned, stat and mknod system calls, >iii) learns about a new struct stat, with larger dev_t, >here all of this works with the current libc.
Actually I ask that you *dont* add new stat, mknod, etc syscalls. You should add xstat, xmknod, etc instead. The idea was that eventually xstat() and friends would eventually become a syscall instead of a wrapper in libc, and this would basically solve a lot of the backwards compatibility issues.
-Eric
-- "The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And lines to code before I sleep, And lines to code before I sleep."
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