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Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 10:29:28 +1100
From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>, torvalds@osdl.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix shmat
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> I'd be inclined to leave it as sys_shmat().  It is logically a syscall, and
> the fact that everyone except mips (and ia64) sticks a multiplexer in front
> of it is a sad historical note.

I still live in hope that we break it back out into syscalls on ppc32/64
one day.

Anton