*at family of syscalls in FreeBSD

[Daniel Eischen]

On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Roman Divacky wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 12:23:49PM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote:
>> I just don't want us to add native functions that don't conform
>> to POSIX, mostly the API is what I am concerned about.  We can
>> change the behavior slightly to conform with whatever POSIX
>> dictates, but we shouldn't knowingly introduce non-conforming
>> APIs (because once 7.0 is released, we'll would always have to
>> support both the non-conforming APIs as well as adding and
>> supporting the conforming APIs).
>
> I have NOT implemented a single bit of native syscalls API and when I am
> going to do it it will be 100% posix API (minus bugs ;) )
>
> we can commit this in two phases:
>
> phase I: kern_fooat() + linux stuff
> phase II: native fbsd syscalls
>
> I hope to resolve all the issues Eric raised over the weekend (hopefully) and
> then it only needs a review(er) + a commiter
>
> I definitely want this in for 7.0R.
>
> does this sound good to you?

No objection here :-)

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