[Port-solaris] sol11 AFS syscall

[Derrick Brashear]

On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Frank Batschulat
<frank.batschulat@oracle.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 20:02:21 +0100, Douglas E. Engert <deengert@anl.gov>
> wrote:
>
>> Being a large Solaris shop and running AFS (and now OpenAFS) on Solaris
>> servers since 1992, I am very disappointed in this response from Oracle.
>> If as other have pointed out that an unlinkat could be done by accident
>> I would think the Oracle would look at this more closely, and do their
>> customers a favor and reserve syscall 65 for OpenAFS.
>
> thanks, that was of no help whatsoever in this technical discussion.
>
> if you prefer it that way, I'd suggest opening a service call for your
> contract once the next Solaris version has been released to seek
> support on behalf of the OpenAFS project.
>
> you may also consider funding a project for OpenAFS Solaris port
> to rip out the syscall misuse and change it to use a driver's ioctl
> which is the only offical way to achive the technical needs.

which still won't fix the existing binaries out there which are
ticking time bombs waiting to bite Solaris users, regardless of
whether they have AFS installed or not.




-- 
Derrick