[OpenAFS-devel] Solaris afs.rc file damage

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Mon, 9 Apr 2007, chas williams - CONTRACTOR wrote:

> In message <Pine.GSO.4.61-042.0704082305230.1487@johnstown.andrew.cmu.edu>,Derr
> ick J Brashear writes:
>>> 	5.7
>>> 	5.8
>>> 	5.9, 5.10
>>> 	5.5 and anything else (5.6).
>>
>> Really, we should rewrite all the rc scripts. But no one's had time.
>
> i suspect the big difference with most of these scripts is the editing
> of the name_to_sysnum.  however, i dont like this 'each release gets a
> different syscall number'.  it would be nice if afs would probe for an
> empty slot in the syscall table and the userspace utilities would find

Me either but we took what we were offered, I think.

The problem with probing for a free number is, well, if everyone does it I 
end up with a set of machines each of which may have a different AFS 
syscall number. Ew.

> a use this syscall number.  at the very least, the userspace binaries