Re: condvar

On 2005-03-17 at 22:34:03 [+0100], Axel Dörfler wrote:
> Philippe Houdoin <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 3) (the clean version) add a new pair of system calls: switch_sem()
> > > and switch_sem_etc() (other naming suggestions are welcome).
> > > Applications using these functions would not run on R5 or Zeta
> > > anymore.
> > Cleaness was (most of the time) the BeOS way. IMHO, better to kept
> > Haiku on the
> > same road. New syscalls is great. It's a > R1 feature, so it make
> > sense to
> > expand the kernel API anyway... and still keep binary compatibility
> > with R5
> > apps.
> 
> As it's already implemented, we might as well make it public for R1.
> Anyway, I'll add the functions to the public OS.h header, and add a
> syscall for them - we can then still decide what to do when we actually
> do release something; until then it's private anyway :-)

The problem doing it this way around is that you'll surely forget about it 
(you mentioned your dementia yourself ;-) and it will end up being public 
without giving it a second thought. It's definitely an API extension and 
not even one I consider likely to be used by anyone, so I don't see any 
reason to make it public before R1.

CU, Ingo


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