[Port-solaris] sol11 AFS syscall

[Derrick Brashear]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Douglas E. Engert <deengert@anl.gov> wrote:
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> On 11/27/2010 1:07 PM, Frank Batschulat wrote:
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>> On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 20:02:21 +0100, Douglas E. Engert <deengert@anl.gov>
>> wrote:
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>>> 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.
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> It was not meant to be technical, it was meant to be a plea for mercy
> from a customer. I am not sure what your position is withing Oracle,
> but I assume you would take back comments like these to your management.

Doug, Frank is here only to help us with technical issues, and can't help
politically. You'll need to arrange through whatever support resources you have
to open a case with Sun.
>>
>> 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.
>
> Yes we will look into doing that, but as others point out it maybe too late
> if we have to wait till a release is out.

I don't think that's the case. The ioctl interface (we just create a
pseudo device)
exists and has for years, and the syscall-via-ioctl method is already how we
handle linux and macos.





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Derrick