Re: [PATCH gnumach] Remove host_kernel_version RPC for x86_64

[Samuel Thibault]

Flávio Cruz, le mar. 09 mai 2023 18:54:37 -0400, a ecrit:
> On Mon, May 8, 2023 at 4:40 PM Samuel Thibault <[1]samuel.thibault@gnu.org>
> wrote:
> 
>     Hello,
> 
>     Flavio Cruz, le dim. 07 mai 2023 23:35:23 -0400, a ecrit:
>     > We can fast track the simplification of the RPC ABI for x86_64 if we
>     don't have
>     > MACH_MSG_TYPE_STRING used in RPCs which forces msgt_size to use more 
> than
>     8
>     > bits.
> 
>     Doesn't this break builds of hurd/glib code that is trying to call
>     host_kernel_version before host_get_kernel_version, etc.?
> 
> 
> host_kernel_version is only used by the Hurd servers.
> [2]https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2023-05/msg00107.html is the
> corresponding change
> to avoid a build error.

Ah, I had received them in the other order, so had seen the gnumach part
before the hurd part :)

Samuel