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From: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
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On Fri Aug 09, 2002 at 12:14:00PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> David Mosberger wrote:
> >>>>>>On Fri, 09 Aug 2002 11:55:20 -0700, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> 
> >>>>>>said:
> >>>>>
> >
> >  HPA> Hmf... some of these seem to be outright omissions
> >  HPA> (pivot_root() and umount2() especially), and probably indicate
> >  HPA> bugs or that the stock kernel isn't up to date anymore.
> >
> >  HPA> I can see umount() being missing (as in "use umount2()").
> >
> >Alpha calls umount2() "oldumount"; ia64 never had a one-argument
> >version of umount(), so there is no point creating legacy (and the
> >naming is inconsistent anyhow...).
> >
> 
> The gratuitous inconsistencies between platforms is something that is 
> currently driving me up the wall.  I'm starting to think the NetBSD 
> people have the right idea: when you add a system call on NetBSD, you 
> only have to add it in one place and it becomes available on all the 
> platforms they support.  Of course, you can provide a custom 
> implementation for any one platform, but the idea is to keep as much of 
> the code generic as possible...

Amen brother.   That would be great!  But I'm not holding 
my breath waiting to see it,

 -Erik

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