Hi, On Thu, Sep 09, 2010 at 02:03:28AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Samuel Thibault, le Wed 08 Sep 2010 12:01:12 +0200, a écrit :
> > [...] but it seems odd to me to add an interface just for this small > > part of information which you can fetch yourself for your own > > processes. > > Or put another way, I'm really not at ease adding an RPC just for this > kind of information, because later on we'll probably want some other > information, and then another, etc. I'm not sure why you consider this a problem?... > Ideally getprocinfo should be easily extendable. Well, we already have a mechanism for making communication protocols in the Hurd extensible: it's called the RPC mechanism... :-) Let's not try to invent another generic mechanism on top of RPCs. *If* ten year down the road we indeed end up with half a dozen miscallaneous info queries, we can *still* replace them by a new RPC covering all of it... Also note that there is precedenct for extending the proc info query by adding new RPCs. -antrik-
