Am Sat, 25 Jun 2016 10:02:38 +0300 Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel_at_gmail.com> schrieb: > On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 10:50:34PM +0000, Brooks Davis wrote: > > pipe(2) had an unnecessarily odd calling convention (ignoring the > > argument the user thought they were passing and returning the two file > > descriptors via the two return registers). This required machine > > dependent assembly for every target and special handling in tracing > > tools (ktrace, dtrace, etc). On 64-bit platforms, pipe(2)'s > > implementation is the only reason the two-register return model needs to > > exist at all (on 32-bit platforms it allows off_t to be returned from > > lseek). > getpid() is another instance. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe_at_freebsd.org" That all is a nice explanation, but how to recover from a broken system, on which the order of installation wasn't performed the right way?
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