On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 08:48:23PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 8:03 PM, Linus Torvalds > <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > So my argument is really that I think it would be better to at least > > look into maybe creating something less crapulent, and striving to > > make it easy to make the old legacy interfaces be just wrappers around > > a more capable model. > > Hmm. Thinking more about this makes me worry about all the system call > versioning and extra work done by libc. > > At least glibc has traditionally decided to munge and extend on kernel > system call interfaces, to the point where even fairly core data > structures (like "struct stat") may not always look the same to the > kernel as they do to user space. > > So with that worry, I have to admit that maybe a limited interface - > rather than allowing arbitrary generic async system calls - might have > advantages. Less room for mismatches. > > I'll have to think about this some more. Any further thoughts on this after a few days worth of pondering? -ben > Linus -- "Thought is the essence of where you are now." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
