Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 28 Jun 1996 12:36:14 +0200 | From | Andries.Brouwer@cwi ... | Subject | Re: libc types [was: SCSI device numbering] |
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Eric Youngdale:
: >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.
Of course. But that is what I said (or meant to say) - look at the `, versioned,'.
Andries
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