[Port-solaris] sol11 AFS syscall

Robert Milkowski milek@task.gda.pl
Sun, 28 Nov 2010 10:18:55 +0000


On 27/11/2010 19:07, Frank Batschulat wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 20:02:21 +0100, Douglas E. Engert 
> <deengert@anl.gov> wrote:
>
>> Being a large Solaris shop and running AFS (and now OpenAFS) on Solaris
>> servers since 1992, I am very disappointed in this response from Oracle.
>> If as other have pointed out that an unlinkat could be done by accident
>> I would think the Oracle would look at this more closely, and do their
>> customers a favor and reserve syscall 65 for OpenAFS.
>
> thanks, that was of no help whatsoever in this technical discussion.
>
> if you prefer it that way, I'd suggest opening a service call for your
> contract once the next Solaris version has been released to seek
> support on behalf of the OpenAFS project.
>
>

Then it will bealready too late.
The current Oracle contracts for Operating Systems do cover Solaris 11 
Express and if it is going to be fixed in S11 it has to happen before 
the official S11 is released.

I'm definitely going to open a case with Oracle.

-- 
Robert Milkowski
http://milek.blogspot.com