Robert Watson wrote: > While I think support for the IPC_64 flag under emulation is useful, I'd > rather make use of compatibility system calls and type improvements for > the base FreeBSD implementation of the System V IPC APIs. Most of the > work necessary to support those changes is required in order to better > support fine-grained locking and MAC (breaking out the user and kernel > structures). Also, it means future applications will make use of the > improved APIs by default. In addition, other systems, such as Solaris, > have already made this change in this way, avoiding the IPC_64 flag > design.
You could also simply use non-intersecting cmd parameter values for the new calls, which avaids the special flag, and leaves the backward compatability without adding grundles of new system calls. I thought that everything was going to 64 bits and we were getting a new system call entry vector in 5.x, anyway... wasn't Matt going to do something like that? -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
