From: Chase Venters <chase.venters@clientec.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>,
"Björn Steinbrink" <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>,
"Russell King" <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>,
rusty@rustcorp.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] introduce kernel_execve function to replace __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 13:32:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200608201333.02951.chase.venters@clientec.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060820112523.f14fc6dc.akpm@osdl.org>
On Sunday 20 August 2006 13:25, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 12:36:49 -0500
>
> Chase Venters <chase.venters@clientec.com> wrote:
> > Unless 'errno' has some significant reason to live on in the kernel, I
> > think it would be better to kill it and write kernel syscall macros that
> > don't muck with it.
>
> We have been working in that direction. It's certainly something we'd like
> to kill off.
Perhaps Arnd's patch is a good step in that direction then. A secondary
suggestion is to put a big comment there that explains "Yes, we know this is
ugly, it's going to die soon."
I'd also consider going so far as just returning -1 if we failed, since we
can't quite trust errno anyway.
Thanks,
Chase
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-20 18:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-19 7:30 [PATCH] Return real errno from execve in ____call_usermodehelper Björn Steinbrink
2006-08-19 8:14 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-19 8:42 ` Russell King
2006-08-20 13:01 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-08-20 13:47 ` Björn Steinbrink
2006-08-20 17:13 ` [PATCH] introduce kernel_execve function to replace __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__ Arnd Bergmann
2006-08-20 17:36 ` Chase Venters
2006-08-20 18:25 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-20 18:32 ` Chase Venters [this message]
2006-08-20 19:45 ` Björn Steinbrink
2006-08-20 19:50 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-20 20:11 ` Björn Steinbrink
2006-08-20 20:20 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-20 20:36 ` Björn Steinbrink
2006-08-20 20:40 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-21 1:55 ` Jeff Dike
2006-08-20 20:33 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-08-20 19:31 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-08-21 0:36 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-08-21 15:12 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-08-21 15:17 ` Russell King
2006-08-22 7:29 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-08-22 8:00 ` Björn Steinbrink
2006-08-22 10:06 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-08-22 13:39 ` Jeff Dike
2006-08-22 15:13 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-08-22 15:37 ` Jeff Dike
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