hi, we need to decide what to be shipped for netbsd-6. (hope it isn't too late.) is anyone against the removal of freebsd-style syscalls?
YAMAMOTO Takashi > On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 05:48:33AM +0200, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote: > > > i tend to think it's better to just kill the freebsd flavor of syscalls. > > > > I think the API is ill-designed too. Even the function names are at odds > > with usual Unix practice. > > > > What we can do is to depreciate the FreeBSD API, and change our code > > in-tree to use the Linux API. I think moving things to userland will do > > more harm than good. > > My vote would be to just remove it entirely. It's not like the code > ever worked. > > -- > David A. Holland > [email protected]
