svn commit: r192590 - stable/7/sys/sys

Kostik Belousov kostikbel at gmail.com
Fri May 22 20:33:55 UTC 2009


On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 04:21:14PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Friday 22 May 2009 4:08:31 pm Dimitry Andric wrote:
> > On 2009-05-22 21:07, John Baldwin wrote:
> > >> Log:
> > >>   some ports erroneously use the existence of AT_FDCWD to check for
> > >>   the availability of the *at system calls so s/AT_FDCWD/AT_FDCWD_notyet/g
> > >>   
> > >>   Reported by: Dimitry Andric
> > > 
> > > I wonder if it wouldn't be appropriate to just remove the dirfd bits entirely 
> > > from 7.x for now.  I.e. remove NDINIT_AT(), AT_FDCWD_notyet, the 'dirfd' 
> > > member from the structure, the 'dirfd' parameter from NDINIT_ALL(), etc.  ZFS 
> > > only really needed NDINIT_ATVP(), yes?
> > 
> > Are there any plans to MFC the *at() calls?  (I'd guess not, since it
> > looks like they change the ABI...) 
> 
> I don't think there are due to the ABI change, and if they were ever MFC'd,
> the NDINIT, etc. bits could be restored as part of that merge.
No, the MFC is posponed not due to KBI change. As I said, I already have
a permission from re@ to change nameidata.

Robert (Cc:ed) hold the MFC because the new fd argument of the at syscalls
is not audited.
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