[OpenAFS] OpenAFS on Linux 2.5.x

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Thu, 17 Apr 2003 jon+openafs@silicide.dk wrote:

> > > 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.

Most of the uses of the AFS system call can probably be gotten rid of. It
just takes time.