It does not help modern compilers, and some may take some hit from it.
(I also found several functions that listed *every* of its 10 local vars with
"register" -- just how many free registers do people think machines have?)
corrects cases where restore would spew an infinite stream of
"Changing volumes on pipe input?" messages, or would loop waiting
for a response to the "set owner/mode for '.'" question.
PR: bin/14250
Reviewed by: dwmalone
- cleanups,
- whiteout support
- bug fixes (chflags missing on a few file types etc)
The dump/restore folks would want to have a closer look at this, the
change is pretty big.