osendfile() silliness

Matthew Dillon dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Mon Oct 6 09:03:41 PDT 2003


:>    While the compatibility syscall added to -CURRENT was placed in an
:>    #ifdef COMPAT_FREEBSD4 block and aptly named freebsd4_sendfile(),
:>    the version MFC'd to -STABLE the same day was placed in an #ifdef
:>    COMPAT_43 block and named osendfile().
:> 
:> Should I just forget about osendfile()?  It clearly does not belong in
:> emulators/43bsd.  I think I'll write a little note in a comment next to
:> the native syscall about the fix and nuke osendfile().  Any objections?
:
:imo, the kernel should be less complex. so you are right in nuking it.
:..but, when you succeeded with splitting sendfile, 'osendfile' should maybe
:go to our binary emulation (for fbsd 4). 
:
:just my 2¢
:
:~ibotty

    Yah, I agree.  Nuke it :-)

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxx>





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