Re: OLS Bof info

From: Chris Wright (chrisat_private)
Date: Tue Jul 02 2002 - 16:18:50 PDT

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    * richard offer (offerat_private) wrote:
    > 
    > I agree that we're talking cross purposes, being a pesimistic planner I 
    > believe the APIs will diverge fairly quickly to account for features in 2.5 
    > that aren't in 2.4 (VFS ?)
    
    They are already different.  This is the point I am trying to make.
    
    * richard offer (offerat_private) wrote:
    > 
    > * crispinat_private at '7/2/02 1:58 PM -0700'
    > *
    > *     * with the "manual fill" method, Richard's module won't
    > *       compile/load, so he'll notice
    > *     * with the auto method, Richard may well "port" is module to the new
    > *       interface and not notice the new critical issue :)
    > 
    > In the scenario you set, its clear that #1 would be a better solution from 
    > a module developer POV. However that increases the cost of module 
    > development by forcing a developer to write all the hooks everytime and to 
    > maintain all those hooks even if they are not important for the policy. So 
    > we're back to the issue of who do we make it easy for the developer...
    
    Manual fill is where we are now.  I posted (some time ago) an extension
    to manual fill that allows the developer to manually fill with dummy
    stubs for things (s)he doesn't care about.  This is the type of
    compromise I am willing to make.
    
    thanks,
    -chris
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