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| author | Vijay Bellur <vijay@gluster.com> | 2012-04-09 23:11:52 +0530 |
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| committer | Anand Avati <avati@redhat.com> | 2012-04-11 10:25:56 -0700 |
| commit | 076830c068fb39bbc3e863c89a4253cbea36357e (patch) | |
| tree | 842884d8db9a40d5a53e5171c852a84daa8e0f65 /doc/porting_guide.txt | |
| parent | df8e2f53b70f4f49af70df308010dddfe5ca35ec (diff) | |
doc: Move outdated documentation to legacy
Change-Id: I0ceba9a993e8b1cdef4ff6a784bfd69c08107d88
BUG: 811311
Signed-off-by: Vijay Bellur <vijay@gluster.com>
Reviewed-on: http://review.gluster.com/3116
Tested-by: Gluster Build System <jenkins@build.gluster.com>
Reviewed-by: Amar Tumballi <amarts@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Anand Avati <avati@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/doc/porting_guide.txt b/doc/porting_guide.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 905bb422..00000000 --- a/doc/porting_guide.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,45 +0,0 @@ - GlusterFS Porting Guide - ----------------------- - -* General setup - -The configure script will detect the target platform for the build. -All platform-specific CFLAGS, macro definitions should be done -in configure.ac - -Platform-specific code can be written like this: - -#ifdef GF_DARWIN_HOST_OS - /* some code specific to Darwin */ -#endif - -* Coding guidelines - -In general, avoid glibc extensions. For example, nested functions don't work -on Mac OS X. It is best to stick to C99. - -When using library calls and system calls, pay attention to the -portability notes. As far as possible stick to POSIX-specified behavior. -Do not use anything expressly permitted by the specification. For example, -some fields in structures may be present only on certain platforms. Avoid -use of such things. - -Do not pass values of constants such as F_*, O_*, errno values, etc. across -platforms. - -Please refer compat-errno.h for more details about errno handling inside -glusterfs for cross platform. - -* Specific issues - -- The argp library is available only on Linux through glibc, but for other - platforms glusterfs has already included argp-standalone library which will - statically linked during the glusterfs build. - -- Extended attribute calls (setxattr, listxattr, etc.) have differing prototypes - on different platforms. See compat.h for macro definitions to resolve this, also - read out the specific extended attribute documentation for your platforms. - ------------------------------------------- -Last revised: Thu Feb 28 13:58:07 IST 2008 ------------------------------------------- |