From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from saraswathi.solana.com ([198.99.130.12]:27277 "EHLO saraswathi.solana.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751803AbWHUB5H (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Aug 2006 21:57:07 -0400 Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 21:55:17 -0400 From: Jeff Dike Subject: Re: [PATCH] introduce kernel_execve function to replace __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__ Message-ID: <20060821015517.GA22062@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> References: <20060819073031.GA25711@atjola.homenet> <200608201237.13194.chase.venters@clientec.com> <20060820112523.f14fc6dc.akpm@osdl.org> <200608201333.02951.chase.venters@clientec.com> <20060820194552.GB11843@atjola.homenet> <1156103446.23756.60.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20060820201118.GC11843@atjola.homenet> <1156105229.23756.65.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <20060820203604.GD11843@atjola.homenet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060820203604.GD11843@atjola.homenet> Sender: linux-arch-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Bj?rn Steinbrink , Arjan van de Ven , Chase Venters , Andrew Morton , Arnd Bergmann , Russell King , rusty@rustcorp.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 10:36:04PM +0200, Bj?rn Steinbrink wrote: > For example check_host_supports_tls in arch/um/os-Linux/sys-i386/tls.c > which even uses the global errno (although in that case the whole > else part could probably be just removed). UML is different. It uses errno extensively (as it must) on the glibc side of things. On the kernel side, there are no uses of errno that I'm aware of. Jeff