[OpenAFS-win32-devel] Proposal: @sys names for future releases

[Douglas E. Engert]

Jeffrey Altman wrote:

> IBM changed the @sys name used for their distribution of AFS for Windows 
> to "i386_w2k".  I don't believe that this is a particularly useful 
> change since there are not significant differences between the platforms.
> 
> I am going to make the following proposal for @sys names for future 
> releases of OpenAFS for Windows which will help distinguish the platform 
> OpenAFS is running on:
> 
>     x86_win32 - for x86 32-bit architectures
> 
>     x86_win64 - for x86/amd 64-bit architectures
> 
>     itanium_win64 - for itanium 64-bit architectures
> 
> Does anyone feel that these are bad choices?  As OpenAFS for Windows 
> supports multiple names I am going to set the sysname list to
> 
>       "x86_win32 i386_w2k i386_nt40" on existing 32-bit systems

What does it mean to support multiple names?

What will fs sysname return? The first in the list?

When a request to open a file or directory  with @sys Will it try
and substitute each of these nmaes in order then test if the file or
directory exists? What if the request has multiple @sys, will it make
sure they both use the same name?





And I  favor Kris's suggestions for consistency of the procesor names.

> 
> The new platforms will get the new single name.
> 
> Jeffrey Altman
> 
> 
> 

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