In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthew Dillon w rites: > And, I will also add, in regards to using the stat structure for > setattr(), that it creates a serious portability problem as well as > a serious forward and reverse compatibility problem. Which fields > in the stat structure are going to be ignored by the syscall and > which are not? You don't know and there is no way to tell.
This email could have been avoided if you had examined the background information and/or the patch. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
