From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>
Cc: Carsten Langgaard <carstenl@mips.com>, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: sys_syscall patch.
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 13:45:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020624134549.B27807@dea.linux-mips.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.1020624133501.22509K-100000@delta.ds2.pg.gda.pl>; from macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl on Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 01:38:27PM +0200
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 01:38:27PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> > > What programs btw are using syscall()? To be honest I don't recall one ...
> >
> > /sbin/rpc.lockd.
> > It use syscall() to indirectly call the 'sys_nfsservctl' syscall, why it
> > doesn't do the syscall directly is beyond me.
>
> Hmm, shouldn't syscall() be a library wrapper? I think we should kill
> sys_syscall().
It's in the kernel for no better reason than Risc/OS and IRIX having this
syscall. Also the glibc syscall implementation was historically broken
wrt. syscall restarting and a few other subtilities.
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-24 11:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-24 9:07 sys_syscall patch Carsten Langgaard
2002-06-24 9:54 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-06-24 10:06 ` Carsten Langgaard
2002-06-24 10:24 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-06-24 10:46 ` Carsten Langgaard
2002-06-24 11:38 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-06-24 11:45 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2002-06-24 14:49 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-06-24 12:02 ` Kevin D. Kissell
2002-06-24 12:02 ` Kevin D. Kissell
2002-06-24 12:04 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-06-24 12:02 ` Ralf Baechle
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