Re: RFC: Native epoll syscalls

2023-06-22 Thread Greg Troxel
Mouse writes: >> It is definitely a real problem that people write linuxy code that >> seems unaware of POSIX and portability. > > While I feel a bit uncomfortable appearing to defend the practice (and, > to be sure, it definitely can be a problem) - but, it's also one of the > ways advancements

Re: RFC: Native epoll syscalls

2023-06-22 Thread Mouse
> It is definitely a real problem that people write linuxy code that > seems unaware of POSIX and portability. While I feel a bit uncomfortable appearing to defend the practice (and, to be sure, it definitely can be a problem) - but, it's also one of the ways advancements happen: add an extension,

Re: RFC: Native epoll syscalls

2023-06-22 Thread Greg Troxel
Martin Husemann writes: > On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 01:50:47PM -0400, Theodore Preduta wrote: >> There are two main benefits to adding native epoll syscalls: >> >> 1. They can be used to help port Linux software to NetBSD. > > Well, syscall numbers are cheap and plenty... > > The real question is: