HEADSUP: new linux infrastructure ports are committed

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Kostik Belousov <kostikbel at gmail.com> (from Fri, 3 Apr 2009  
12:51:27 +0300):

> On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 08:27:42AM +0200, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
>> Quoting "Sean C. Farley" <scf at FreeBSD.org> (from Thu, 2 Apr 2009
>> 12:33:42 -0500 (CDT)):
>>
>> >What cannot be MFC'd besides TLS and NPTL?  For syscalls that cannot
>> >be MFC'd, can calls be written that help to some degree without
>> >breaking ABI?  The wiki page[1] is incomplete on what changes are to
>> >be MFC'd.  I can say that fstatat64() seems popular (called by rm)
>> >in /var/log/messages.
>>
>> *at() can not be MFCed as it would change the native VFS ABI (Roman
>> implemented the FreeBSD side of *at() calls to be able to emulate the
>> linux *at() calls).
> It can be MFCed with low-impact KBI breakage, and I have re@ approval

You need to rebuild all FS then, don't you? Would FUSE in this case  
refuse to load when not rebuild? If not, what would be the impact of  
not rebuilding but loading it?

> for the MFC. What actually stopped the merge is an issue with missed
> audit bits for dirfd descriptors. They are missed in HEAD too, so
> 8.0 needs some action to finish this.

Thanks for the info,
Alexander.

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