Subject: Re: some puffs rototill (fyi)
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Antti Kantee <pooka@cs.hut.fi>
List: current-users
Date: 07/02/2007 13:30:48
On Mon Jul 02 2007 at 02:11:35 +0300, Antti Kantee wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was going to make some backward incompatible changes to the
> programming interface for a new feature, so I decided to flush a
> couple other changes I'd been wanting to make. Here's a short
> summary of what changed. In-tree file systems are up-to-date.
>
> * puffs_cred is now totally opaque. it was opaque in principle
> also before this, so any direct users were naughty anyway.
> as a side-effect, pcn_cred is now a pointer
> * the pid_t parameter in some methods and puffs_cn has been replaced
> by puffs_cid (caller id ;). method signatures need editing.
> use puffs_cid_getpid() to get the pid. note that this no longer
> overloads the swapper pid for non-process contexts.
> * instead of an array of random pointers passed to creation functions
> (lookup, create, mknod, mkdir, symlink, fhtovp), struct puffs_newinfo
> is now passed. signatures need to be modified. information on the
> new node can be set using puffs_newinfo_set{cookie,vtype,size,rdev}.
>
> Yea, and as it turned out, I didn't need to introduce the incompatibility
> for the change that sparked all of this .... ;)
Missed one yesterday:
inactive no longer comes with the silly int *refs parameter. Use
puffs_setback(pcc, PUFFS_SETBACK_NOREF_N1) if you want to achieve
"*refs = 0;".
(not that puffs_setback isn't silly, but at least it's less silly)
--
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