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From: David Given <dg@cowlark.com>
To: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Mess over open(
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 10:30:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200407201030.23540.dg@cowlark.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040720021951.99294.qmail@web51303.mail.yahoo.com>

On Tuesday 20 July 2004 03:19, you wrote:
> Although the open( call seems to be used everywhere
> (in around 70 source code files), it isn't defined
> anywhere. How can ELKS get past booting if a call
> isn't defined?

It might be a syscall entry point, or something else equally as weird; these 
tend to be defined in horrific bits of autogenerated assembly or other 
bizarre things. I'd suggest running nm on the object files and making sure 
that it *really* isn't defined... apart from anything else, the linker should 
bail.

(Not that I'm saying you're wrong, but I've spent so much time trying to find 
weird symbols in the Linux kernel source that I know not to jump to 
conclusions!)

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-20  9:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-20  2:19 Mess over open( Tommy McCabe
2004-07-20  9:30 ` David Given [this message]
2004-07-20 15:28 ` Eduardo Pereira Habkost

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