[OpenAFS-devel] openafs rxk5 - AFS_RXK5_DEFAULT

Jeffrey Hutzelman jhutz@cmu.edu
Tue, 20 Feb 2007 18:18:54 -0500


On Tuesday, February 20, 2007 05:28:50 PM -0500 Derrick J Brashear 
<shadow@dementia.org> wrote:

> Why not issue numbers even if they never see deployed code?

Because for pioctl's, the code space is fairly sparse.  I issue numbers 
when I believe there is a strong likelyhood that there will be code, even 
if the interface details aren't nailed down yet.  So far, this has worked 
moderately well.

-- Jeff