[OpenAFS] OpenAFS on Linux 2.5.x

jon+openafs@silicide.dk jon+openafs@silicide.dk
Thu, 17 Apr 2003 08:55:04 +0200


On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 08:30:00AM -0400, Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Apr 2003, Jon Bendtsen wrote:
> 
> > > It needs to be updated, and even then it probably won't work, unless by
> > > some miracle people decided maybe it was ok to let us use the syscall
> > > reserved for us.
> >
> > Why would these people decide that we could or could not use a syscall?
> > And who are these people anyway?
> 
> Because the arguments it takes do not have well-defined semantics.

I think that using well-defined semantics is a good code practice
and this might be why they dont like it. I figure it must be
possible to use well-defined semantics, at least somehow.




JonB