and that will be an exception that i'll have to deal with, which is entirely reasonable given that they rarely do change
another rare exception i could skirt around would be white space changes that would deter me from diffing syscalls.master instead of `nm /bsd` during automation, but the problem doesn't even come to that with snapshots, since i don't have a source referral; i only have the binary interface of the symbol list On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Philip Guenther <guent...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 9:34 PM, Andres Perera <andre...@zoho.com> wrote: >> all of the calls in syscalls.master map to a unique function, and all >> of them start with sys_. it's true that nm won't tell me about >> argument changes. i just risk it a little by assuming no one's that >> evil > > Heh. *Yesterday* tedu asked me to add some backwards compat to a diff > I set around that did exactly that, changing the argument list for an > existing syscall. I guess I'm winning the evil contest with tedu! > > > Philip Guenhter
