On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, matthew green wrote:

:    In principle I agree with you. But if we have the same code in every
:    emulation except for the name, we should centralize it. And I think we can
:    do this w/o adding much impact to native code (testing for a null
:    pointer).
:
: i don't like this because different emulations translate different
: system calls, not "all of them".  how do you provide for this?

Then that's a bug.  Translation should be applied uniformly to a uniform set
of syscalls.  (IMNSHO, it should be all syscalls which take a filename in
the filesystem namespace.)

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