In message <199905291221.waa28...@godzilla.zeta.org.au>, Bruce Evans writes: >>Just found that savecore is broken in the same way. What is proper >>procedure to fix it? I.e. is it must be fixed in the kernel, leaving >>userland programs as is or in userland, leaving kernel as is? > >The kernel needs to maintain (or create as necessary for return by >sysctl()) udev_t versions of most (all?) device numbers that are accessed >in userland. I think the proper way to do this will be to maintain a >udev_t for each dev_t in the kernel too. udev_t should be named dev_t, >the current dev_t should be named something like kdev_t and should be >a pointer to a struct containing the (user) dev_t. The kernel needs >something like this for fast conversions in old interfaces like stat(2).
... But since renaming dev_t in the kernel will totally hose all device driver writers, we don't rename it, but suffer the trouble of the overloaded name. The structure thing will happen RSN. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member p...@freebsd.org "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
