Re: the 'why' of pseudofs

2009-02-18 Thread Bill Hacker
Jost Tobias Springenberg wrote: I do not want to sound offensive here but I don't get the point of this discussion at all. What exactly is wrong with null mounts and / or the way PFS work ? If you want to have seperate partitions instead of PFS, thats perfectly fine, nobody forces you to use

tree.h RB_AUGMENT empty body warning

2009-02-18 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
Hi all, I've been using tree.h ( http://www.dragonflybsd.org/cvsweb/src/sys/sys/tree.h ) in C projects for a long time, and it has bothered me to have suggest braces around empty body in if-statement warnings from GCC. Old GCCs didn't even have a -Wno-empty-body flag, and I think the GCC in

EUREKA - was the 'why' of pseudofs

2009-02-18 Thread Bill Hacker
Matthew Dillon wrote: There are several reasons for using PFSs. EUREKA! Matt - you've re-invented Ramphotyphlops braminus: Weigh this: PFS = Parthenogenetic File System hammer pfs-master = select a host. hammer pfs-slave = induce ovulation. hammer mirror-copy = self-inseminate

Fwd: EUREKA - was the 'why' of pseudofs

2009-02-18 Thread Colin Adams
-- Forwarded message -- From: Colin Adams colinpaulad...@googlemail.com Date: 2009/2/18 Subject: Re: EUREKA - was the 'why' of pseudofs To: Bill Hacker w...@conducive.org 2009/2/18 Bill Hacker w...@conducive.org: Proven pattern among Odontata, too:

Re: Fwd: EUREKA - was the 'why' of pseudofs

2009-02-18 Thread Bill Hacker
Colin Adams wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Colin Adams colinpaulad...@googlemail.com Date: 2009/2/18 Subject: Re: EUREKA - was the 'why' of pseudofs 2009/2/18 Bill Hacker w...@conducive.org: Proven pattern among Odontata, too: http://ecoevo.uvigo.es/Olalla/index_en.htm

Re: tree.h RB_AUGMENT empty body warning

2009-02-18 Thread Matthew Dillon
: I really don't like this idea. Adding braces and dummy do/while, : but I don't like casting the passed expression to void simply as : a means of avoiding a compiler warning. : :The cast is needed as the value of the element should explicitly be :ignored for the default macro. : :