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Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 13:25:18 +0300
From: "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@altlinux.org>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: use compat version for preadv2 and pwritev2
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On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 12:14:11PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Wed, 11 May 2016, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> > Similar to preadv and pwritev, preadv2 and pwritev2 need compat entries
> > in the 32-bit syscall table.
> 
> So this is 2016 and we added a syscalls which require compat support. What's
> wrong here?

I'm not sure I understand your question, it looks to me as "why do we add
syscalls that require compat support".  If that's what you are asking,
I have no idea, I'm a strace man.


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