svn commit: r340055 - in head: share/man/man9 sys/cddl/contrib/opensolaris/uts/common/fs/zfs sys/fs/ext2fs sys/fs/fuse sys/fs/nandfs sys/fs/nfs sys/fs/nfsclient sys/fs/tmpfs sys/kern sys/sys sys/uf...

[Brooks Davis]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2018 at 04:49:00PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> On 02/11/2018 16:42, Brooks Davis wrote:
> > Author: brooks
> > Date: Fri Nov  2 14:42:36 2018
> > New Revision: 340055
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/340055
> > 
> > Log:
> >   Make vop_symlink take a const target path.
> >   
> >   This will enable callers to take const paths as part of syscall
> >   decleration improvements.
> >   
> >   Where doing so is easy and non-distruptive carry the const through
> >   implementations. In UFS the value is passed to an interface that must
> >   take non-const values. In ZFS, const poisoning would touch code shared
> >   with upstream and it's not worth adding diffs.
> 
> zfs_vnops.c is already sufficiently different from upstream (because of quite
> different VFS models), so a small difference in zfs_symlink's signature would
> not be too bad.

Good to know.  When I hit modifying three files I stopped.  I'll
keep this in the back of my mind as a possible improvement.

Thanks,
Brooks
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