Re: Latest version of mega header file POSIX update

[Garance A Drosihn]

Back on March 15/2001, Garrett Wollman wrote:
>I have finally produced another version of the big header file patch
>for people to look at.  I'm still running an older (January) kernel
>and world based on these changes.  I have verified that these still
>build on i386-architecture systems.  I'm looking for some people to
>do the following:
>
>1) Look at the changes to machine-dependent i386 headers and make
>analogous changes, or verify the changes I've made, in the Alpha
>and IA64 code.
>
>2) Test it.  I'm interested not only in whether it runs -- I'm fairly
>confident of that -- but also in what external software it breaks,
>if any.
>
>I'm expecting to make a third pass over the header files once Austin
>Group draft 6 is issued.  (Draft 7 is expected to be the final text.)
>However, I really, really want to get this checked in so that we can
>all have a framework on which to work.
>
>The patch has now gotten too large for some e-mail systems, so I'm
>making it available via the Web at
>.

As I'm sitting here picking off the occasional compile-time warnings
in lpr&friends, I'm wondering about the status & timeline of this big
posix-push patch.  (one of the warnings I'm getting would be solved
by the changes to  in this patch).

Is the goal to have this patch in current for "5.0-release" later this
year?  If so, what milestones should we be shooting for?  Is this going
to show up in 4-stable too, or is it too widespread a change to try
and MFC it?  (I am not suggesting it SHOULD be MFC'ed, I'm just
wondering).

[also, it seems to me there was a more recent message about this
patch, but it seems I didn't save that one]

I've got this idea of trying to build an alternate /usr/include on
my -current machine, and then see how it works by switching between
the current /usr/include and an alternate version which included
the latest version of this patch.  On the other hand, I do a lot
more day-to-day living on a -stable system, so I'm not sure how
much of a test I'd give these changes on my -current system.

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Re: Latest version of mega header file POSIX update

[Bruce Evans]

On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Garrett Wollman wrote:

> The patch has now gotten too large for some e-mail systems, so I'm
> making it available via the Web at
> .

Please include it in the mail anyway so that it is easier to see and
reply if the e-mail system actually works.

Bruce


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RE: Latest version of mega header file POSIX update

[John Baldwin]

On 16-Mar-01 Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <
> said:
> 
>>  Nothing else jumped out at me while I glanced over it however, and
>> it seems fine at first glance.
> 
> But did you *test* it?  I know it compiles.

No, not yet.  I can try it out on my SMP and alpha testboxes here, though my
the witness_exit panic deadlocks my alpha under heavy load.  :-P

> -GAWollman

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RE: Latest version of mega header file POSIX update

[Garrett Wollman]

< said:

> I don't think the sys/conf/Makefile.i386 change is needed. :)

Oops.  Sorry, that one leaked out

>  Nothing else jumped out at me while I glanced over it however, and
> it seems fine at first glance.

But did you *test* it?  I know it compiles.

-GAWollman


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RE: Latest version of mega header file POSIX update

[John Baldwin]

On 15-Mar-01 Garrett Wollman wrote:
> The patch has now gotten too large for some e-mail systems, so I'm
> making it available via the Web at
> .

I don't think the sys/conf/Makefile.i386 change is needed. :)  Nothing else
jumped out at me while I glanced over it however, and it seems fine at first
glance.

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Latest version of mega header file POSIX update

[Garrett Wollman]

I have finally produced another version of the big header file patch
for people to look at.  I'm still running an older (January) kernel
and world based on these changes.  I have verified that these still
build on i386-architecture systems.  I'm looking for some people to do
the following:

1) Look at the changes to machine-dependent i386 headers and make
analogous changes, or verify the changes I've made, in the Alpha and
IA64 code.

2) Test it.  I'm interested not only in whether it runs -- I'm fairly
confident of that -- but also in what external software it breaks, if
any.

I'm expecting to make a third pass over the header files once Austin
Group draft 6 is issued.  (Draft 7 is expected to be the final text.)
However, I really, really want to get this checked in so that we can
all have a framework on which to work.

The patch has now gotten too large for some e-mail systems, so I'm
making it available via the Web at
.

-GAWollman


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