Re: Testing 7.0 Beta: FFS still very slow when creating files

[Sverre Froyen <sverre%viewmark.com@localhost>]

On 2014-08-25, at 18:15, Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost> wrote:

>    Date:        Tue, 26 Aug 2014 08:04:11 +1000
>    From:        matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>
>    Message-ID:  <29001.1409004251%splode.eterna.com.au@localhost>
> 
>  | Joerg Sonnenberger:
>  | > memcmp is only supposed to provide the correct sign, not the difference.
>  | 
>  | true, but that's not what memcmp(9) says.

…

> If anything needs changing, it would be to make it more clear that the
> man pages should not be interpreted as an interface specification, but
> as a statement of what the implementations actually do - not to be
> interpreted as a promise that they will always do that - for what can
> be relied upon a reference should be made to the relevant standard
> (which can be POSIX (or IEEE for C, or anyone else), or POSIX (etc) as
> amended by NetBSD, or a NetBSD private standard for stuff that either
> isn't documented by anyone else's standards doc, or where NetBSD's
> version has simply decided to be different.

Does the NetBSD version originate with BSD? The man pages for FreeBSD,
OpenBSD and Mac OS X all have the same description.

Sverre