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Most pseudo operations don't actually USE the server's response. So
why wait for a response?
This patch introduces a new message type, PSEUDO_MSG_FASTOP. It
also tags pseudo operation types with whether or not they need to
give a response. This requires updates to maketables to allow non-string
types for additional columns, and the addition of some quotes to the
SQL query enums/query_type.in table.
A few routines are altered to change their behavior and whether or not
they perform a stat operation. The only operations that do wait are
OP_FSTAT and OP_STAT, OP_MKNOD, and OP_MAY_UNLINK. Rationale:
You can't query the server for replacement information and not wait for
it. Makes no sense.
There's extra checking in mknod, because we really do want to fail out
if we couldn't do that -- that implies that we haven't created a thing
that will look like a node.
The result from OP_MAY_UNLINK is checked because it's used to determine
whether we need to send a DID_UNLINK or CANCEL_UNLINK. It might be cheaper
to send two messages without waiting than to send one, wait, and maybe
send another, but I don't want to send invalid messages.
This is highly experimental.
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The _plain thing was added because of clashes between Linux
("struct stat64 for 64-bit file sizes") and Darwin ("struct stat
is already 64 bits"). But it turns out not to be enough,
because stat will *fail* if it cannot represent a file size,
so when something like unlinkat() calls a non-64-bit stat in
order to determine whether a file exists, it gets the wrong
answer if the file is over 2GB in size.
Solution: Continue using PSEUDO_STATBUF, and also provide
defines for base_stat() which can be either real_stat() or
real_stat64(), etcetera.
This eliminates any reason to need the _plain functions. It
also suggests that the other real___fxstatat() calls should
someday go away because that is an ugly, ugly, implementation
detail.
As part of testing this, fix up some bitrot which affected
Darwin (such as the continue outside of a loop, but inside
an #ifdef; that was left over from the conversion of
init_one_wrapper to a separate function).
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This is a spiffied-up rebase of a bunch of intermediate changes, presented
as a whole because it is, surprisingly, less confusing that way. The basic
idea is to separate the guts code into categories ranging from generic
stuff that can be the same everywhere and specific variants. The big scary
one is the Darwin support, which actually seems to run okay on 64-bit OS X
10.6. (No other variants were tested.) The other example given is support
for the old clone() syscall on RHEL 4, which affects some wrlinux use cases.
There's a few minor cleanup bits here, such as a function with inconsistent
calling conventions, but nothing really exciting.
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Peter Seebach