On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 05:07:51PM -0700, Joel Baker wrote:
In the origional message, I merely pointed out that keeping such things
properly encapsulated is crucial, if you EVER want to be able to run on any
other kernel.
Which original message? The one I saw said "Certainly it will have a
hard time working on any of the BSDs anytime soon, if it relies on devfs
more than trivially" and "Use of /proc should also, prefferably, be
limited to traditional /proc items and not the Linux view." You didn't
say anything about encapsulating them, or using them only where
appropriate, you just said to avoid them.
That's all I'm asking for - careful API design, that tries very hard to
That's what you're asking for now, and it doesn't seem nearly as
controversial as what you asked for the first time. (Seems pretty close
to what I said when I suggested you'd have to plug in some
kernel-specific code for certain functions.)
Mike Stone
