On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:07:17AM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > Mike Shapiro <mws at sun.com> wrote: > > > > > I'm sponsoring the following fast-track for Eric Schrock and Keith > > Wesolowski to introduce new Private libscsi and libses libraries. > > The case timer is set for 3/19 and the binding is for a Patch release. > > A copy of the spec (below) is also saved in the incept.materials > > directory, and I've also put copies of header files there. > > Please do not call something libscsi unless you prove that this library > really an abstraction from the low level transport interface and the Solaris > platform.
That's what libscsi is. > If you don't know, such a library already exists since August 1986, so why > should there be another one. Solaris is allowed to have whatever namespace of whatever pieces of software we all choose. The ARC's job is to own that namespace and approve changes. There is no common library with this name in Solaris. This case adds one. -Mike -- Mike Shapiro, Sun Microsystems Fishworks. blogs.sun.com/mws/
