Re: [Linux-ia64] XFS / IA64 system call conflict

From: David Mosberger <davidm_at_hpl.hp.com>
Date: 2001-07-24 10:35:07
>>>>> On Tue, 24 Jul 2001 10:30:18 +1000, Keith Owens <kaos@melbourne.sgi.com> said:

  Keith> Do you take care of glibc as well?  That is where the problem
  Keith> tends to occur.

glibc is a *user* of the kernel's system call numbers, so I don't see
how this could create a problem.  Perhaps you're worried about the
name of the libc system call?

  Keith> In any case the XFS syscalls are for the SGI version of ACLs.
  Keith> There are other projects working on ACLs, until there is
  Keith> agreement about the ACL syscall interface, the XFS numbers
  Keith> cannot be considered to be permanent.  So yes, we are on our
  Keith> own for the moment.

Fine by me provided you make sure that the users of XFS understand
that.  It does sound though that it would be premature to recommend
widespread use of XFS at this time.

	--david
Received on Mon Jul 23 17:35:25 2001

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