DragonFly kernel List (threaded) for 2003-07
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Re: userapi: message versioning
Matthew Dillon wrote:
My current thinking is to make the emulation layer responsible for
all version matching.
Here's the idea... all binaries in the system will generally be tagged
with a build version using a non-debug symbol in the binary and/or
tagged in the ELF binary or as a file attribute.
Will this work for statically compiled applications?
For the kernel messaging side of things I propose that all system calls
which transfer complex structures, such as stat*(), getdirentries(),
etc... take and return data as a resource list rather then as a static
structure.
The userapi would be responsible for translation to and from the
resource list?
That would be pretty slick, the resource list would automatically be the
template I was thinking about earlier, and marshalling the message for
transition to MachLand or passing it over the network would be almost
trivial.
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