David Mosberger wrote:
>>>>>>On Fri, 09 Aug 2002 11:55:20 -0700, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> said:
>>>>>
>
> HPA> Hmf... some of these seem to be outright omissions
> HPA> (pivot_root() and umount2() especially), and probably indicate
> HPA> bugs or that the stock kernel isn't up to date anymore.
>
> HPA> I can see umount() being missing (as in "use umount2()").
>
> Alpha calls umount2() "oldumount"; ia64 never had a one-argument
> version of umount(), so there is no point creating legacy (and the
> naming is inconsistent anyhow...).
>
The gratuitous inconsistencies between platforms is something that is
currently driving me up the wall. I'm starting to think the NetBSD
people have the right idea: when you add a system call on NetBSD, you
only have to add it in one place and it becomes available on all the
platforms they support. Of course, you can provide a custom
implementation for any one platform, but the idea is to keep as much of
the code generic as possible...
-hpa
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