[OpenAFS] OpenAFS on Linux 2.5.x

jon+openafs@silicide.dk jon+openafs@silicide.dk
Thu, 17 Apr 2003 14:32:19 +0200


On Thu, Apr 17, 2003 at 06:00:03AM -0400, Derrick J Brashear wrote:
> 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.

Yeah stuff takes time, i was just hearing a kind of giving up
spirit :/ and i think that would be a bad idea.



JonB