Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Dec 1999 19:46:17 -0500 (EST) | From | Chris Wing <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] proposed IPC changes to support 32-bit UIDs |
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Alan:
> Renaming system calls is bad. I got (rightfully) toasted by Ulrich Drepper > for doing that with umount - now umount2(). The syscall name is between libc > and the kernel and changing them breaks compat issues and makes life hard for > lib people.
Okay, that makes a lot of sense. We can't have a kernel source tree that makes libc builds magically blow up. I'll avoid changing any names in include/asm-xxx/unistd.h, but the actual function names in the kernel source shouldn't matter, right? (e.g. what you did with the new getrlimit)
Thanks,
Chris Wing wingc@engin.umich.edu
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