PSARC 2009/210 uname -c

[Joerg Schilling]

Sebastien Roy <Sebastien.Roy at Sun.COM> wrote:

> Solution:
>
> This case proposes to add such a feature to the kernel by introducing a
> new -c option ('c' for "credits) to the uname command.  The output is
> not an Interface, but consists of a newline separated list of names of
> people who contributed to the kernel.

Will this change introduce an "unlimited" string length feature for kernel 
interfaces or will the number of resulting lines be limited to 42?

How do you retrieve the needed buffer space?

How do you like to define the "credits" interface between device drivers
and "the kernel"?

Do you plan to create a new panic() condition "panic: unknown credit list"
when the sysinfo() system call is not able to load all drivers in order 
to retrieve the list of contributors for the cumulated list? Or will you 
simple return the string "we are bork" in such a case?

Jörg

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