From: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Bj?rn Steinbrink <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
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: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 09:39:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060822133945.GA3813@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200608221207.00344.arnd@arndb.de>
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 12:06:59PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> UML can be converted to use the syscall function provided by libc
> in order to call the host OS.
You're contemplating changing UML to do, e.g.
syscall(NR_write, fd, buf, len)
instead of the current
write(fd, buf,len)
?
That hardly seems like an improvement and it seems fairly unnecessary.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-22 13:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20060819073031.GA25711@atjola.homenet>
[not found] ` <200608201501.29296.arnd@arndb.de>
[not found] ` <20060820134745.GA11843@atjola.homenet>
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
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 [this message]
2006-08-22 15:13 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-08-22 15:37 ` Jeff Dike
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