Re: Changing the gpio(4) API/ABI

2011-09-27 Thread Marc Balmer
Am 27.09.11 02:44, schrieb Matthew Mondor: On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:38:13 +0200 Marc Balmer m...@msys.ch wrote: With gpio(4) we still carry an old API with us, which I want to remove. While working on it, I will also introduce a third locator to device drivers that attach to gpio pins,

Re: MAXNAMLEN vs NAME_MAX

2011-09-27 Thread Mouse
Certainly the original 14 byte limit was occasionally a nuisance (but even that was better than 8+3 which was typical), but longer than 255? I've run into the 255 limit. On only a few occasions, but definitely more than zero. (About three times, I think.) In my case it is usually files

Re: return value of prop_*_recv_syscall()

2011-09-27 Thread Manuel Bouyer
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 10:35:41PM +0200, Francois Tigeot wrote: Hi, I've started working on a new disk quota system for DragonFly this summer, and after some time I've discovered Manuel Bouyer had implemented a new quota subsystem for NetBSD this year. I think the proplib based

Re: MAXNAMLEN vs NAME_MAX

2011-09-27 Thread Christos Zoulas
On Sep 27, 3:48pm, k...@munnari.oz.au (Robert Elz) wrote: -- Subject: Re: MAXNAMLEN vs NAME_MAX | Date:Mon, 26 Sep 2011 09:46:09 -0400 | From:chris...@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas) | Message-ID: 20110926134609.8322a97...@rebar.astron.com | | | But it is better long

RE: MAXNAMLEN vs NAME_MAX

2011-09-27 Thread Paul_Koning
| Even using a utf-8 encoded filename, at 5 bytes/character, that's | still a 51 character filename, which is longer than rational - names | = 40 characters mean that on a standard 80 column display, ls can't | even show | 2 columns of names. FWIW: the basic multilingual plane of Unicode (the

Re: return value of prop_*_recv_syscall()

2011-09-27 Thread Jean-Yves Migeon
On 27.09.2011 12:23, Manuel Bouyer wrote: On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 10:35:41PM +0200, Francois Tigeot wrote: Since DragonFly's proplib implementation comes from NetBSD, I figured it would be best to ask here what to do: fix the documentation or fix the implementation ? The documentation. The