On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 05:11:37PM -0500, Zhihui Zhang wrote: [top-posting; format recovered] > On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 03:58:16PM -0500, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > > > > > > While adding a system call, I notice in file syscall-hide.h there are > > > many instances of HIDE_POSIX() and HIDE_BSD(). What is the purpose of > > > these macros? Maybe they are now obsolete? > > > > The syscalls-hide.h file was generated from sys/kern/makesyscalls.sh > > from the third field of sys/kern/syscalls.master - POSIX, BSD or NOHIDE. > > However, three months ago Poul Henning-Kamp removed the syscalls-hide.h > > file and the relevant parts of makesyscalls.sh. I think that this may > > be scheduled for MFC'ing some time in the future, but you might have > > to ask phk for specifics. > > > > Also, I would also like to know what was the original purpose of > > the POSIX/BSD/NOHIDE distinction. BTW, should that field be removed > > from syscalls.master, too? > > I can't guess what does it mean by "hiding". Maybe any system call can be > hidden from some configuration of the kernel.
Maybe we should CC phk@ explicitly then :) Poul-Henning, you removed the syscalls-hide file; could you shed some light on what it was meant to be used for? :) G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 This sentence would be seven words long if it were six words shorter. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
