On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 01:37:23PM +0300, Antti Kantee wrote: > > > Add translation from vtype to dirent type. > > > > Is there any reason that the vtypes need to continue to exist in the > > long term? > > I view them as an optimization and I'd say "no", but it's gonna be one > hell of a battlefield trying to get rid of them and i'm not sure vtypes > are hiding any weapons of mass destruction -- mostly pushes genfs here > and there and arguably with less mess.
Getting rid of them entirely wasn't what I had in mind; more along the lines of switching to the dirent type symbols. Or the S_IF* symbols. Having both the DT_* and S_IF* symbols is unavoidable because both were standardized, but there doesn't seem to be much justification for a third kernel-only set. > Would removing them solve any real problems? "too many things" -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org
